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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... enemies , and will reward them that hate me . I will make mine arrows drunk with blood , and my sword shall devour flesh ; with the blood of the slain and of the captives , from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy . Rejoice , O ye ...
... enemy , about twelve miles away downwind . They had been tracking them for a day and a night , the body of their force kept carefully over the horizon , not only to prevent the French and Spanish taking fright and running from battle ...
... enemy in sight to windward . ' For all 47,000 men afloat that morning , it felt like a day of destiny and decision . Most ships in both fleets were already cleared for action . The French and Spanish were about twelve miles and the ...
... enemies , as they quite explicitly repeated in dispatch after dispatch to Madrid , Paris and on to Napoleon's mobile headquarters , then in Germany , did not desire at all . The ... enemy than they did of the British ? How by 1805 had 9.
... enemy . ' Intriguingly , the percentage of qualified 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 ...
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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 |