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Rachel Blackman-Rogers discusses Britain's naval and maritime strategy throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars with Professor Andrew Lambert of King's College London's Department of War Studies.
[2:38] - misconceptions of naval fiction
[6:35] - prize money
[9:22] - the City and the Admiralty
[12:18] - the bond between officers and men (and when it got broken)
[14:33] - the 'we were treated horribly' sub-genre of maritime memoir literature
[16:28] - impressment as an occupational hazard
[19:46] - everything wrong with the French navy
[24:18] - targeting French privateers
[27:56] - French colonial losses
[32:47] - the Scheldt as the big British invasion launchpad
[39:48] - Europe's transformed armies after 1805/6
[41:36] - how Britain helped - and fought - the Russian navy
[44:44] - the War of 1812
[52:02] - how Britain's focus on sound money helped the war effort
[55:27] - why Britain's Caribbean colony-grabbing wasn't entirely imperialistic
[57:43] - how Nelson lived on after Trafalgar.
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Help us produce more episodes by supporting the Napoleonic Quarterly on Patreon: patreon.com/napoleonicquarterly
Rachel Blackman-Rogers discusses Britain's naval and maritime strategy throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars with Professor Andrew Lambert of King's College London's Department of War Studies.
[2:38] - misconceptions of naval fiction
[6:35] - prize money
[9:22] - the City and the Admiralty
[12:18] - the bond between officers and men (and when it got broken)
[14:33] - the 'we were treated horribly' sub-genre of maritime memoir literature
[16:28] - impressment as an occupational hazard
[19:46] - everything wrong with the French navy
[24:18] - targeting French privateers
[27:56] - French colonial losses
[32:47] - the Scheldt as the big British invasion launchpad
[39:48] - Europe's transformed armies after 1805/6
[41:36] - how Britain helped - and fought - the Russian navy
[44:44] - the War of 1812
[52:02] - how Britain's focus on sound money helped the war effort
[55:27] - why Britain's Caribbean colony-grabbing wasn't entirely imperialistic
[57:43] - how Nelson lived on after Trafalgar.

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