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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... early in the 16th century during the first years of the Reformation , in the lead - up to the Civil War in the mid - 17th century , in the 1790s and again in the 1820s and 30s at a time of widespread uncertainty over the reform and ...
... early 19th - century England , these visions felt like access to a new and potent reality ; and it is from those social levels that Nelson's fleet was manned . In 1801 , the most powerful of all these movements erupted in the West ...
... which blew that defence into atoms . The day of Trafalgar was one in which three complex variations of the early 19th - century European frame of mind was put to the test . Both French and Spanish regarded the British with fear and IO.
... Early on the morn- ing of 5 October , they spotted four large Spanish frigates coming in from the west and making for Cadiz harbour . After an initial parley , in which the Spanish refused to surrender , the British rapidly savaged ...
... seamen on British ships , when first leaving port , might not on occasions have been a great deal higher . The Spanish rarely put large fleets to sea but the British blue seas policy , pursued since the early 18th century , 15.
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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 |