Buy this book on-line POPE**, DUDLEY: : ENGLAND EXPECTS.**LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1959. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.Owner inscrptn and price-clipped dw/d/j.Minimal rubbing to head+foot of spine/backstrip, slightly foxed fore-edges.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,368pp includes notes,a biblio, folding b/w cut-away diagram HMS VICTORY, b/w battle plans+illus.
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The saga of 1805,the year of Britain's danger,and the great victory at Trafalgar. At two am,on a foggy November morning in 1804,a bedraggled young naval officer strode into the Admiralty and told the startled Secretary to the Board; 'Sir, we have gained a great victory; but we have lost Lord Nelson!' Thus Britain learned the news of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Now POPE tells for the first time the complete story of the year 1805,ending with the victory at Trafalgar; and seen through the eyes of the seamen,soldiers and civilians of Britain,France and Spain. He describes the events leading up to the engagement: the building of the vast French invasion fleet to bring the army of 150,000 with which Napoleon planned to crush England: the rude measures taken for our island defence.He gives a complete picture of the appalling conditions aboard an English man-o'-war.And finally shot by shot and thrust by thrust,the great battle itself is fought again. Men fall,ships are captured.The stirring account is seen through the eyes of the ordinary seamen as well as Nelson and his admirals,of the French and Spanish as well as the British. 1805 was one of the most dramatic in the whole of British history and POPE,using many unpublished documents,illustrations and dozens of eye-witness accounts of the battle,describes it with brilliance.
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