Far Distant Ships: The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815 Barry Quintin
Far Distant Ships: The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815 Barry Quintin Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British…
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Far Distant Ships: The Blockade of Brest 1793-1815 Barry Quintin
Throughout the long drawn out war at sea during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, it was a cardinal principle of British naval strategy to blockade the port of Brest, the largest and most important of the French naval bases that threatened the security of the British Isles. The American naval historian A.T. It was a strategy that had been perfected by Sir Edward Hawke during the Seven Years War of 1756 - 1763, when it culminated in the stunning victory of Quiberon Bay.
Mahan memorably summed up the contribution of the Royal Navy to the ultimate defeat of Napoleon when he wrote: "Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the domination of the world."There were many aspects to the blockade of Brest, but always at its center was the need to frustrate French attempts at the invasion of Britain or Ireland. Most
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