The Victory of Seapower: Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814

Richard Woodman

Caxton Editions, 2001 - History - 192 pages

The victory at Trafalgar marked the beginning of nine years of domination by the Royal Navy right across the globe and the policy of defending Britain's ever increasing trade, paid for the war effort and struck back at the dominant military power of France. This volume charts the events of those years, including the gradual take-over of the French Caribbean colonies, the elimination of Dutch power in the East Indies and the successful assault on Copenhagen in 1807. The book is one of a major series which describes the great maritime events of the pre-photographic era from contemporary paintings, prints, drawings, charts and plans, based on the incomparable collections of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich

About the author

Richard Woodman was born in London. England in 1944. He became an indentured midshipman in cargo liners at the age of 16, which resulted in a 37 year nautical career. He became captain in 1980. He spent 11 years in command at sea, 6 years in operational management ashore, and is currently a Board Member of Trinity House, the authority responsible for navigational safety round the coast. He is a regular correspondent for the shipping newspaper Lloyd's List. He has written over 50 books, a mixture of fiction and maritime history. His fiction works include the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, A Kit Faulkner Naval Adventure series, and The William Kite Trilogy. He received several awards including the Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award in 2001 for his journalism, the Society of Nautical Research's Anderson Medal in 2005 for three major studies of convoy operations in the Second World War, and the Marine Society's Thomas Gray Medal in 2010 for his five-volume history of the British Merchant Navy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Victory of Seapower: Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814; Caxton pictorial histories
• Author: Richard Woodman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Caxton Editions, 2001
• ISBN: 1840673591, 9781840673593
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain / General; History / Military / General; History / Military / Naval; History / Wars & Conflicts / Napoleonic Wars