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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... sides of the Atlantic . ' All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of Babylon's fornications , ' he told his giddy listeners , ' and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her , and the merchants of the earth are ...
... side of a licked finger . On the day of the battle , only the very largest ship , the vast Spanish four - decker , the Santísima Trinidad , did not respond to her helm . Most had just enough steerage way to manoeuvre . The sky was a ...
... side during the battle . They had been captured from the British during the war . The British Belleisle had begun life as the French Formidable , captured off the Breton coast in 1795. Many of the British ships had anyway been built as ...
... sides , policy reinforced demography . In common with other European navies , the Spanish had more ships than they could man . Unavailability of skilled labour , rather than the lack of funds , limited the effectiveness and power of ...
... side , to wear his hat in the presence of the King . He was , in many ways , an antique himself , laden with a sense of honour , duty and a particularly Spanish form of fatalism . " There are disasters that may be honoured as victory ...
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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 |