Arming the Royal Navy, 1793-1815: The Office of Ordnance and the State (Warfare, Society and Culture)

by Gareth Cole (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $157.21

  The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth examination of its organizational structure and demonstrates how the department responded to the pressures of war over an extended period of time.