Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of TrafalgarHarper Collins, 13 paź 2009 - 384 “Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The Economist Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. A story rich with modern resonance, Seize the Fire reveals the economic impact of the battle as a victorious Great Britain emerged as a global commercial empire. In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Seize the Fire is not only a close and revealing portrait of a legendary hero in his final action but also a vivid account of the brutal realities of battle; it asks the questions: Why did the winners win? What was it about the British, their commanders and their men, their beliefs and their ambitions, that took them to such overwhelming victory? His masterful history is a portrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame of mind at a turning point in world history. |
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... England . Nelson's Undress coat , National Maritime Museum , London , Greenwich Hospital Collection . Admiral Sir Cloudisley Shovell ( 1650-1707 ) by Michael Dahl , 1702. National Maritime Museum , London . Admiral John Byng ( 1704-57 ) ...
... England than in any other country in Europe . A higher percentage of the population died in the English Civil War than in the French Revolution . The suppression and brutalisation of the Scottish Highlanders after Bonnie Prince ...
... England ! O England ! O England ! ' Southcott called , The midnight - hour is coming for you all , and will burst upon you . I warn you of dangers that now stand before you , for the time is at hand for the ful- filment of all things ...
... England in 1804-5 , but they were far from unique . The country was filled with violently apocalyptic religious movements , many of them versions of Methodism : Ranters , Jumpers , Tent Methodists , Magic Methodists , the Bryanites ...
... England . He too was the friend of all . He too saw himself standing on a stage , habitually referring to himself in the third person . He too was calm in the face of danger and catastrophe and accepted the working of destiny as a fact ...
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Order and Anxiety | 49 |
Honour | 93 |
Love | 130 |
Boldness | 157 |
Violence | 209 |
Humanity | 239 |
Nobility | 275 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 319 |
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar Adam Nicolson Podgląd niedostępny - 2006 |