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The Pursuit of Victory:

The Life And Achievement of Horatio Nelson
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Basic Books, 2005 - History - 873 pages
How did Horatio Nelson achieve such extraordinary success? In this authoritative biography, the eminent scholar Roger Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy of the time. Nelson was passionate and relentless from the outset of his career; his charisma and his coolness in battle are legendary. But his success depended also on the strength of intelligence available to him, the quality of the ships he commanded, the potency of his guns, and the skill of his seamen. Based on a vast array of new sources, this biography demolishes many of the myths that have for two centuries surrounded Nelson. Knight demonstrates that this great Romantic hero was in his time a shrewd political operator and often a difficult subordinate. He was occasionally naive, often impatient, and only happy when completely in command. Readers will emerge from this biography with a greatly enriched understanding of this singular man-one who was brilliant, severely flawed, and never to be crossed. Errata pp. 638 - 665: http://www.perseusbookspromos.com/docs/KnightErrataPP638-665.pdf
  

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Selected pages

Contents

Burnham Thorpe September 1758April 1771
3
The Navy in 1771
12
Horace Nelson Midshipman May 1771April 1777
25
The West Indies April
43
Albemarle November 178oMarch 1784
62
Boreas and the West Indies March 1784July 1786
82
Senior Naval Officer Leeward Islands August
106
Halfpay in Norfolk December 1787December 1792
118
Separation 8 November 1800March 1801
346
Copenhagen March2 April 1801
362
CommanderinChief Baltic Fleet AprilJune 1801
385
Boulogne JulyOctober 1801
402
Peace and the Journey to Wales October 18o1May
421
The Peace of Amiens October 18o1May 1803
437
CommanderinChief Mediterranean May
451
The Long Chase JanuarySeptember 1805
479

The Navy in 1793
133
The Commissioning of the Agamemnon January
144
Frustrated Subordinate
154
Independent Command
181
La Minerve and the Blanche to Porto Ferrajo
207
The Battle of Cape St Vincent and the Blockade
219
Disaster at Santa Cruz 14 July4 September 1797
241
Recovery and High Command September 1797May
255
Chasing the French 3 May1 August 1798
270
The Battle of the Nile 1 August22 September 1798
288
Dalliance and Dishonour 7 August 17998 November
328
Trafalgar 14 September21 October 1805
501
The Funeral 9 January 1806
527
The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
539
The Summingup
547
Chronology of Nelsons Life
559
Naval Military and Political
587
Biographical Sketches
620
Glossary
680
Notes
713
Text and Illustrations Permissions
818
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Roger Knight's huge new biography of Horatio Nelson is so well-provisioned with sources and footnotes that it is hard to quarrel with
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About the author (2005)

Roger Knight is one of Britain’s foremost experts on naval history and a renowned Nelson scholar. He was the chief curator and deputy director of the National Maritime Museum, London, and is now visiting professor of naval history at the Greenwich Maritime Institute.

Bibliographic information

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TitleThe Pursuit of Victory: The Life And Achievement of Horatio Nelson
AuthorR. J. B. Knight
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherBasic Books, 2005
ISBN046503764X, 9780465037643
Length873 pages
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History / Europe / Great Britain
History / Military / Naval
  
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