Great British Battle Commanders

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Admiral Lord Nelson with Dr Gregory Fremont-Barnes, author of several books on Nelson and his Navy, and senior lecturer in war studies at RMAS. The interview is recorded in Nelson’s cabin on HMS Victory in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Nelson Glossary

Cuthbert Collingwood Admiral and Second in Command at Trafalgar.

John Jervis Earl of St Vincent, Admiral and Commander at the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

George Towry Captain, involved in the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

Thomas Troubridge Captain, involved in the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

Ralph Abercromby General, mortally wounded at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801.

Pierre-Charles de Villeneuve French Admiral and overall Commander of the Combined Fleet at Trafalgar.

Frederico Gravina Spanish Admiral and Second in Command at Trafalgar.

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery with the former Chief of the Army and former Chief of the Defence Staff, General Lord Richards. The interview is recorded in the D-Day Map Room at Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, which was the nerve centre for Operation Overlord.

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General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander 1944-1945

Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Supreme Commander to Eisenhower

Field Marshal Herbert Plumer, British First World war general

Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1944

Field Marshal Lord John Gort, Commander of British forces in France, 1940

Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, British general

Field Marshal Harold Alexander, British general

General George S. Patton, US general

General Frederick E. Morgan, British general

General Omar N. Bradley, US general

Field Marshal William J. Slim, British general

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. The interview is recorded in Colchester Castle, Essex, which was built on the foundations of the Roman Temple that was sacked and burnt by Boudica’s forces in AD 60.

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding with aviation historian, Dr Victoria Taylor. The interview is recorded in Dowding’s former office in Bentley Priory, Stanmore, which was Headquarters Fighter Command during the Second World War.

BFBS Forces News presents ‘Great British Battle Commanders’ hosted by Professor Michael Clarke, Sitrep’s defence analyst, assessing the leadership and strategy of the Duke of Wellington with the best-selling author of the ‘Sharpe’ and ‘Last Kingdom’ novels Bernard Cornwell. The interview is recorded in Wellington’s former office in Horse Guards, now used as the office of the General Officer Commanding HQ London District.