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La bataille de Trafalgar
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la bataille de Trafalgar en moins d'une heure! 1805. Depuis le début de son règne, Napoléon Ier n'a qu'une envie: envahir l'Angleterre. Mais, pour cela, il devra combattre sur la mer, terrain de prédilection des Britanniques. Le 21 octobre 1805, la flotte franco-espagnole de Charles de Villeneuve est interceptée par les forces britanniques, avec à leur tête Horatio Nelson. Le combat sur le point de commencer sera déterminant… Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur:
• Le contexte politique et social de l'époque
• Les acteurs majeurs du conflit
• Le déroulement de la bataille de Trafalgar et sa chronologie (carte à l'appui)
• Les raisons de la victoire anglaise
• Les répercussions de la bataille Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES | Grandes Batailles », Jonathan Duhoux nous présente la bataille navale qui a mis fin au Grand Dessein de Napoléon. Si celui-ci souhaitait porter un coup fatal à son dangereux adversaire, c'est tout le contraire qui se produira. La flotte française est décimée, et la supériorité navale de la Grande-Bretagne ne se démentira pas de sitôt. »
Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grandes Batailles La série « Grandes Batailles » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante conflits qui ont bouleversé notre histoire. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent tout savoir sur une bataille, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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La bataille de Trafalgar: La fin des ambitions navales de Napoleon
Decouvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la bataille de Trafalgar en moins d'une heure !1805. Depuis le debut de son regne, Napoleon Ier n'a qu'une envie : envahir l'Angleterre. Mais, pour cela, il devra combattre sur la mer, terrain de predilection des Britanniques. Le 21 octobre 1805, la flotte franco-espagnole de Charles de Villeneuve est interceptee par les forces britanniques, avec a leur tete Horatio Nelson. Le combat sur le point de commencer sera determinant...Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur :* Le contexte politique et social de l'epoque* Les acteurs majeurs du conflit* Le deroulement de la bataille de Trafalgar et sa chronologie (carte a l'appui)* Les raisons de la victoire anglaise* Les repercussions de la batailleLe mot de l'editeur : Dans ce numero de la collection 50MINUTES | Grandes Batailles Jonathan Duhoux nous presente la bataille navale qui a mis fin au Grand Dessein de Napoleon. Si celui-ci souhaitait porter un coup fatal a son dangereux adversaire, c'est tout le contraire qui se produira. La flotte francaise est decimee, et la superiorite navale de la Grande-Bretagne ne se dementira pas de sitot. Stephanie DagrainA PROPOS DE LA SERIE 50MINUTES | Grandes BataillesLa serie Grandes Batailles de la collection 50MINUTES aborde plus de cinquante conflits qui ont bouleverse notre histoire. Chaque livre a ete pense pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent tout savoir sur une bataille, tout en allant a l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siecles d'histoire.
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Understanding victory : naval operations from Trafalgar to the Falklands
\"Using four warship-centered examples, this book shows how naval battles are won or lost--and how technological advantage is rarely as decisive in defeat or victory as is often claimed\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Africa and Britain. Episode 2, Freedom
The history of black people in Britain is frequently reduced to the story of recent black settlement. But that is not where this extraordinary cross-continental relationship begins. Africa and Britain: A Forgotten History re-tells the story of black people in the UK and – to do so – travels to the United States, Jamaica, South Africa, and Sierra Leone. Forgotten art vaults are unlocked, artefacts re-examined and 20 Black History plaques unveiled to the public. Award-winning historian David Olusoga tells the story of the young enslaved African brought to Britain under the protection of Queen Victoria, explores the terrible legacy of slavery and the impact of the world wars. African people have been a crucial part of British history for 2,000 years. Find out where their story really began.
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Nelson’s Surgeon
In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805. Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in securing the victory, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory at Trafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson’s flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, he became Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty’s career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war. The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he was a prominent figure in London’s business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of the nineteenth century. In Beatty’s case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero’s last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.
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Nelson
Nelson's naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely death as he led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar have ensured his enduring position as England's favorite hero. This engaging, full-length biography of Nelson (1758-1805) presents a gripping account of his career and climb to fame interwoven with the fascinating details of his personal and emotional life.A man of contradictions, Nelson emerges in this biography as a ruthless and aggressive leader; an ambitious attention-seeker capable of childish behavior; but a figure admired for his courage, kindness, and leadership skills. Edgar Vincent offers a number of new interpretations of aspects of Nelson's life, illuminates the motives and attitudes of key figures who surrounded him, and provides an account of his early infatuations, his courtship of his wife Fanny, and his passion for his celebrated mistress Lady Hamilton. Captured on these pages in all his vigor and complexity, Nelson is as charismatic a figure today as he was two hundred years ago.
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