Nelson and Napoleon

The Long Haul to Trafalgar

Christopher Lee

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571321681
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Horatio Nelson is Britain's greatest naval hero; Trafalgar, in 1805, her greatest naval victory. Nelson and Napoleon, first published in 2005, is the story of how Britannia came to rule the waves for more than a hundred years.

Christopher Lee re-examines the myths of Trafalgar, plotting Napoleon's overweening ambition to invade England and Nelson's single-minded dedication to seeking glory. He shows how Villeneuve had worked out Nelson's famous plan of attack, and demonstrates how the battle could easily have turned the other way. Lee also paints a vivid picture of the protagonists: particularly of the creation of a national hero in Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon.

'Christopher Lee's vivid and painstaking account cuts through the folklore, replacing it with wonderful insights into early nineteenth-century Britain and Europe.' Daily Express

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chronology
• Charts
• CHAPTER ONE: What’s in a Name?
• CHAPTER TWO: Of Ships, Men and Mutiny
• CHAPTER THREE: Spankers and Gallants
• CHAPTER FOUR: The Duel
• CHAPTER FIVE: Invasion – The Dream
• CHAPTER SIX: Invasion – The Reality
• CHAPTER SEVEN: Pyrotechnics
• CHAPTER EIGHT: Invasion – The Nightmare
• CHAPTER NINE: Whitehall Warriors
• CHAPTER TEN: Corruption
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: Cat and Souris
• CHAPTER TWELVE: The Melville Affair
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Alliances and Empires
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Yet Another Plan
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Imagined Victories
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Unhappy Christmas
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Chase Begins
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Wrong Signals
• CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Victory That Never Was
• CHAPTER TWENTY: Homeward Bound
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Farewell to Emma
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Nearly New Plan
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Southward Bound
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: About Face
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: The Weather Factor
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Hands to Breakfast
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The Battle – Part I
• CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: The Battle – Part II
• CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: Epilogue
• Glossary
• French, Spanish and British Ships at Trafalgar
• The Main Characters
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright