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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... killed with such unbridled intensity and passion . Scarcely anyone in England in 1805 could be more distant from Nelson than William Blake : the one , radical , poor , impractical and ' hid ' , as he described himself , buried in an ...
... killing and disabling very large numbers of its officers and crew . In some ways , that was all : a pack of dogs ... kill ten times more of their enemy than they did of the British ? How by 1805 had 9.
... killing machine in the world ? And how had the French and Spanish , each with their long , dignified and noble naval traditions , become their quivering and broken victims ? There are technological answers to these questions , to do ...
... American gold dollars on board as well as hides and furs . Two of the Spanish frigates were captured , described as ' torn to pieces ' when later brought into Spithead , and one of them , the Mercedes , blew up , killing II.
... killing everyone on board . What scandalised Spanish opinion more than any- thing else , though , were the civilian casualties . The wife of a colonel of artillery was wounded in the battle and died of her wounds when a prisoner in ...
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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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