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Precursors of Nelson: British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century
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PRECURSORS OF NELSON: BRITISH ADMIRALS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Edited by Peter Le Fevre and Richard Harding
L25.00, 436 + xii pages Chatham Publishing, 2000 ISBN 1 86176 062 0
Richard Harding and Peter Le Fevre have assembled a distinguished group of historians to provide an excellent collection of essays which greatly increases our understanding of why the sailing Royal Navy reached its operational and tactical zenith under Horatio Nelson: arguably the ultimate naval officer.
A number of the Royal Navy's senior officers from the eighteenth century, such as Anson, Rodney, Hood and St Vincent, are well known, in comparison others, such as Rooke, Shovell, Wager and Cornwallis, have been ...