How England Saved Europe, 1793-1815 Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Fitchett''s four-volume history is a stirring and frankly biased account of England''s role as protector and defender of civilization against what the author terms "the wild-menace of Revolutionary France and the world-threatening despotism of Napoleon."  In Volume Two, Fitchett focuses on the battle for supremacy of the seas. The author describes Nelson’s expeditions, English blockades, Napoleon’...