Cooper Willyams

A Voyage Up the Mediterranean in His Majesty S Ship the Swiftsure

With a Description of the Battle of the Nile on the First of August 1798

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Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1802, chaplain Willyams offers an illustrated eye-witness account of the Battle of the Nile, Nelson's greatest triumph.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1099g
• ISBN-13: 9781108020466
• ISBN-10: 1108020461
• Artikelnr.: 30980861

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sir Horatio Nelson appointed to command the squadron
2. The British fleet passes the Straits of Messina
3. Description of the Bay of Syracuse
4. Admiral Nelson revisits the shores of Egypt
5. Pursuit and conquest of the French fleet
6. Aboukir Bay
7. Vessels endeavouring to escape from Alexandria are burned
8. The Swiftsure joins the squadron off Marabou
9. Names of the ships that arrived off Alexandria under Commodore Troubridge
10. A British squadron sails from Palermo to the Bay of Naples
11. The squadron returns to Palermo
12. Lord Nelson dispatches the Swiftsure to Civita Vecchia
13. Voyage to Minorca.