John D Grainger

The British Navy in the Baltic (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the medieval period when there were frequent disputes between English kings and the Hanseatic League, the seventeenth-century wars with the Dutch, and Britain's involvement in the Northern Wars in the early years of the eighteenth century. It considersin detail the major period of British involvement in the Baltic during the Napoleonic Wars, when the British navy fought the Danes, Napoleon's allies, and was highly effective in ensuring Sweden's neutrality and Russia's change of allegiance. It goes on to discuss British naval actions in the Baltic during the Crimean War and in the First World War and its aftermath. Throughout, the book relates naval actions to patterns of trade, to wider internationalpolitics, and to geographical factors such as winter sea ice and the shallow nature of the Baltic Sea.

John D. Grainger is the author of numerous books for a variety of publishers, including five previously published books for Boydell and Brewer, including Dictionary of British Naval Battles and The First Pacific War: Britain and Russia, 1854-56.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047285
• Artikelnr.: 56407264

Autorenporträt

John D. Grainger is the author of numerous books for a variety of publishers, including nine for Boydell and Brewer, including The British Navy in the Baltic, Dictionary of British Naval Battles, The First Pacific War: Britain and Russia, 1854-56 and The British Navy in the Caribbean.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Ohthere
Wulfstan and King Knut
800 - 1020 The Medieval Hansa Naval Stores
Cromwell and the Dutch
1600 - 1700 The First Expedition against Copenhagen
1700 Two Expeditions of Sir John Norris
1715 - 1716 The Swedish War
1717 - 1721 Armed Neutralities
1722 - 1791 Nelson at Copenhagen
1801 The Bombardment of Copenhagen
1807 The First Expedition of Sir James Saumarez
1808 The Domination of Saumarez
1809 - 1815 The Russian War
1854 - 1856 The Great War
1914 - 1918 The Last Baltic Expedition
1919 - 1921
and After Conclusion: The Navy and the Sea Bibliography