Glorious First Of June 1794
A Naval Battle and its Aftermath
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
192 pages
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21 illustrations
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8-9/10 x 5-1/2
The Glorious First of June 1794 describes the first great naval engagement of the Great War with France (1793-1815). Participants on both sides considered it the hardest-fought battle between them in the eighteenth century, and both sides felt they attained their objectives: the British captured or sank seven French battleships, and the French saved their big grain convoy from America.
In this book, experts explore the naval campaign from both British and French perspectives, setting it in its wider context of the war strategy of the rival powers. The intensity of the encounter is demonstrated through the accounts of eyewitnesses, three of which are here published for the first time, and the impact of the battle on public imagination is traced through plays, prints and paintings, and through the artefacts and memorials by which it was commemorated.
“This book is the result of a conference devoted to one naval battle, and it is a model of its kind. The editors are of course old hands at this sort of thing. Michael Duffy, who as editor of the Mariners Mirror became friend and confidant to so many naval and maritime historians, was the editor of the proceedings from another ground breaking conference Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650-1850. Roger Morriss, one of those productive naval and military historians – a veritable North Atlantic triangle of scholarship – from Ian R. Christie’s graduate seminar in the 1960s at King’s College, London, is one of the foremost authorities on the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Both these fine historians teach at that relatively new and highly successful centre of naval history, Exeter University, in Devon, England . . . This is a thoroughly good read.” –The Northern Mariner, 2002
Contents
Introduction: The Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794
Michael Duffy and Roger Morriss
Michael Duffy and Roger Morriss
The Prairial Battles: The French Viewpoint
André Delaporte
The Glorious First of June: The British Strategic Perspective
Christopher Ware
The Glorious First of June: The British View of the Actions of 28, 29 May and 1 June 1794
Roger Morriss
The Man Who Missed the Grain Convoy: Rear Admiral George Montagu and the Arrival and Vanstabel’s Convoy from America in 1794
Michael Duffy
The Convoy, the Grain and Their Influence on the French Revolution
Lawrence Evans
The Glorious First of June: A Battle of Art and Theatre
Peter van der Merwe
The Battle Sanctified: Some Memorials and Relics
Barbara Tomlinson
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