The Royal Navy 1793-1815

A careful analysis of the organisation, tactics and command structure which ensured that the Royal Navy was the undisputed master of the waves.

By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain was the undisputed master of the seas, owing to the power and strength of the Royal Navy. Its fleets, comprising ships of the line, frigates, and gunboats, had doubled in size since the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793, totalling almost a thousand capital vessels.

This book examines th...