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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.