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World War, 1939-1945 --- Naval operations, British --- Great Britain.

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Great Britain. --- History --- United States --- Europe --- Naval operations, British. --- History, Naval.

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Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --- Naval operations, British --- Nelson, Horatio Nelson, --- Military leadership. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain --- History, Naval --- History, Naval

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Detailed investigation of the key role played by Admiral Saumarez in the continuing naval warfare against Napoleon. The maritime war against Napoleon did not end with the Battle of Trafalgar, but continued right up to 1815, with even more British ships and sailors deployed after 1805 than before. One key theatre was the Baltic, where the British commander was Admiral Saumarez. He had had a highly successful career as a post-Captain, notably at the two battles of Algeciras as a newly-promoted Rear-Admiral. For five years from 1808 as Commander-in-Chief of a large Balticfleet, he played a very skilful diplomatic role, combining firmness and restraint, and working with Sweden contrary to the instincts of his superiors in London, even when she declared war. Despite the determined efforts of Denmark's gunboats and privateers, he successfully kept British trade flowing in and out of the Baltic, undermining Napoleon's 'Continental System' - the economic blockade of Britain - and leading to Napoleon's fateful decision to invadeRussia in 1812. This book, based on extensive original research in both British and Scandinavian archives and making considerable use of Saumarez' unpublished correspondence, charts the maritime and political history of thewar in the Baltic. It illustrates the highly successful, highly esteemed role the Admiral played and looks at the nature and motivation of the man himself revealed in his letters and in the private letters of Count von Rosen, Governor of Gothenburg and chief link between Saumarez and former French Marshal Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden, later to be crowned King Karl XIV Johan. TIM VOELCKER gained his PhD in maritime history at the University of Exeter.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --- Admirals --- Naval operations, British. --- Saumarez, James, --- Military leadership. --- Baltic Sea Region --- History, Naval --- Admiral Saumarez. --- Baltic. --- British commander. --- Napoleon. --- economic blockade. --- maritime war.

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Captain Alan William Frank Sutton's enthralling biography starts when, as a young midshipman he was in command of a small rowing cutter returning a potentially mutinous crew to the battle-cruiser HMS Repulse in which he served. Amazingly it ends in the open cockpit of a Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber during the legendry night attack which destroyed the Italian fleet at Taranto.This biography has been written with the full cooperation of Captain Sutton who has given the author every detail of his lengthy naval ship and airborne career during World War II.

Sutton, A. W. F. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations British. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- Naval operations British --- Great Britain. --- Sutton, Alan William Frank --- צי הבריטי --- England and Wales.