Directory of Naval Resources

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These sites concentrate on the naval aspect of the wars of Napoleon. Some sites deal with "Nelsonic Fiction", a popular genre ever since C.S. Forester wrote the "Hornblower" books

Subcategories

• Nelson, Horatio

Resources in This Category

• Battle of Aboukir Bay

  http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-aboukir-bay.htm
  Article describing the Battle of the Nile and the events that led up to it.

• Broadside

  http://www.nelsonsnavy.co.uk/
  Describes life in Royal Navy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

• Historical Maritime Society

  https://sites.google.com/site/historicalmaritimesociety/
  Royal Navy reenactment and research group. Includes historical articles about Nelson and the navy of 1793-1815, research resources, discussion forum, and news and information about society events.

• List of Ships of War, which were lying in the Tagus, 1806.

  http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Naval_History/PT/NC-18(1807)_p229.html
  The Portuguese fleet, as observed by Lord St Vincent.

• Naval History: Great Britain.

  http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Naval_History/GB/TOC.html
  Collection of on-line documents written between 1801 and 1820.

• The Battle of the Saintes

  http://www.fortogden.com/saintes.html
  Not strictly a Napoleonic battle, but one that set the style of naval warfare for Nelson and others to follow.

• The Minotaur at the Battle of Trafalgar

  http://www.minotaur.org/trafalgar.htm
  Presents details of battle, ship's log, and names of officers and crew.

• The Russian Navy in the Coalition Wars

  http://www.neva.ru/EXPO96/book/chap7-1.html
  Page that describes Russian naval activity during the period, part of an on-line history of the Russian navy.

• The Trafalgar Roll

  http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Trafalgar/
  Part of a genealogy site, this page lists British ships and seamen (some 1,640 of them) who fought at Trafalgar. There's also lists of killed and wounded and brief descriptions of some other naval actions.

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