PDF Britain; Portugal and South America in the Napoleonic Wars: Alliances and Diplomacy in Economic Maritime Conflict (International Library of Historical Studies) by Martin Robson in History

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France; early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents; two vast French and British fleets meet in the mid-Atlantic following a week of skirmishing. After fierce fighting; both sides claim victory. In The Glorious First of June Sam Willis not only tells; with thrilling immediacy and masterly clarity; the story of an epic and complex battle; he also places it within the context of The Terror; the survival of the French Revolution and the growth of British sea-power.