Biographies

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  • Adams, Max (2015) [2005]. Admiral Collingwood - Nelson's own hero. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson. ISBN 9781784081942.
  • Grant, R. G. (2011). Commanders - History's greatest military leaders. London: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-1-4053-6860-5.
  • Harrison, Cy (2019). Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War: A Biographical Dictionary of Commissioned Officers 1748-1763. Warwick: Helion Limited. ISBN 978-1-912866-68-7.
  • Heathcote, T.A. (2005). Nelson's Trafalgar Captains and Their Battles. Barnsley, Yorks.: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 1-84415-182-4.
  • Heathcote, T.A. (2005). Wellington's Peninsular War Generals and Their Battles. Barnsley, Yorks.: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-84884-061-4.
  • Hore, Peter (2015). Nelson's Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials. Barnsley.: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781848327795.
  • Hough, Richard (1994). Captain James Cook - A Biography. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-58598-6.
  • Humble, Richard (2019). Napoleon's Admirals: Flag Officers of the Arc de Triomphe, 1789-1815. Oxford: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-61200-808-0.
  • McGuigan, Ron; Burnham, Robert (2017). Wellington's Brigade Commanders - Peninsula and Waterloo. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978 1 47385 079 8.
  • Mundle, Rob (2012) [2010]. Bligh - Master Mariner. Barnsley, Yorks.: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 978 1 78159 047 8.
  • Perrett, Bryan (2013) [1997]. The Real Hornblower - The Life and Times of Admiral Sir James Gordon GCB. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978 1 78159 195 6.
  • Taylor, Stephen (2012). Commander - The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-27712-4.
  • Tracy, Nicholas (2006). Who's Who in Nelson's Navy. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-244-5.

British Empire

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  • Black, Jeremy (2004). The British Seaborne Empire. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300103861.
  • Dalziel, Nigel (2006). The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire. London: Penguin Publishing. ISBN 978-0141018447.
  • Darwin, John (2013). Unfinished Empire - The global expansion of Britain. London: Penguin Publishing. ISBN 978-1-846-14089-1.
  • Kwarteng, Kwasi (2011). Ghosts of Empire - Britain's Legacies in the Modern World. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978 0 7475 9941 8.
  • Lee, Christopher (2005). This Sceptred Isle: Empire. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563488750.
  • Marshall, P. J. (1996). The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ferguson, Niall (2003). Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World. London: Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 0-713-99615-3.
  • Lloyd, Trevor (2001). Empire - The History of the British Empire. London: Hambledon and London. ISBN 1-85285-259-3.
  • Paxman, Jeremy (2011). Empire - What Ruling the World Did to the British. London: Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-670-91957-4.
  • Scott, David (2013). Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0007247547.

Exploration

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  • Aughton, Peter (2007). Voyages That Changed the World. London: Quercus Publishing. ISBN 1-84724-004-6.
  • Balchin, Jon (2005). Explorers - Journeys to the Ends of the Earth. London: Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78212-699-7.
  • Lavery, Brian (2013). The Conquest of the Ocean - The Illustrated History of Seafaring. London: Doring Kindersley. ISBN 978-1-4093-6797-0.
  • Williams, Glyn (1999). The Prize of all the Oceans. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0002571258.
  • Wilson, Derek (1989). The Circumnavigators - The pioneer voyagers who set off around the globe. London: Constable and Robinson. ISBN 1-84119-709-2.

Pirates

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  • Botting, Douglas (1980) [1978]. The Pirates. New York: Time Life Books. ISBN 07054 0682 2.
  • Cabell, Craig; Thomas, Graham A.; Richards, Allan (2012). Blackbeard - The Hunt for the World's Most Notorious Pirate. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1-84415-959-8.
  • Cawthorne, Nigel (2013) [2003]. Pirates - an illustrated history. London: Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78212-332-3.
  • Stuart Robertson, ed. (2008). The Pirate's Pocket Book. London: Conway Publishing. ISBN 9781844860777.

Royal Navy

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  • Black, Jeremy (2023). Britain's Naval Route to Greatness (1688-1815). Stroud, Gloucestershire.: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-3981-1435-7.
  • Davies, David (1996). Fighting Ships. Fulham Palace Road, London.: Constable and Robinson Limited. ISBN 1-84119-469-7.
  • Davies, J. D. (2008). Pepy's Navy - Ships, Men & Warfare 1649-1689. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-7928-7.
  • Gough, Barry (2018). Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America 1812-1914. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1473881365.
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory (2007) [2007]. The Royal Navy, 1793-1815. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84603 138 0.
  • Hore, Peter (2005). The Habit of Victory - The Story of the Royal Navy 1545-1945. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. ISBN 0-283-07312-8.
  • Kennedy, Paul (1991) [1976]. The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery. London: Fontana Press. ISBN 0-00-686215-2.
  • Lambert, Andrew (2000). War at Sea in the Age of Sail. Strand, London.: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-35246-2.
  • Lavery, Brian (2009) [2009]. Empire of the Seas. London: Conway Publishing. ISBN 9781844861095.
  • Price, Anthony (1996). The Eyes of the Fleet: A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains 1793-1815. New York: W W Norton & Co Inc. ISBN 978-0393038460.
  • White, Colin (1981). End of the Sailing Navy. Emsworth: Kenneth Mason Publications. ISBN 978-0859372244.

Life in

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  • Blake, Nicholas; Lawrence, Richard (1999). The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1 86176 090 6.
  • Colville, Quinton; Davey, James (2013). Nelson Navy and Nation - The Royal Navy and the British People 1688-1815. London: Conway Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84486-225-2.
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory (2007). The Royal Navy 1793-1815. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84603 138 0.
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory (2005). Nelson's Sailors. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1 84176 906 1.
  • Lavery, Brian (1992). Nelson's Navy - The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793 - 1815. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0 85177 521 7.
  • O'Neill, Richard (2003). Patrick O'Brian's Navy - The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World. London: Salamander Books. ISBN 978-0-7624-1540-3.
  • Pappalardo, Bruno (2019). How to Survive in the Georgian Navy: A Sailor's Guide. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472830876.
  • Pope, Steve (1998). Hornblower's Navy - Life at Sea in the Age of Nelson. London: Orion Publishing. ISBN 0-75281-774-4.
  • Roger, N. A. M. (1986). The Wooden World - An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. London: Fontana Press. ISBN 978-0-00-686152-2.
  • Woodman, Richard (2005). Mutiny - A brief history. London: Constable and Robinson. ISBN 978-1-84119-737-1.
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  • Dunn, Richard; Higgit, Rebekah (2014). Finding Longitude. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-752586-7.
  • Harland, Bernard (2015) [1984]. Seamanship in the Age of Sail - An account of shiphandling of the sailing man-o-war, 1600-1860. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-8448-6309-9.
  • Ireland, Bernard (2000). Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail. Hammersmith, London.: Harper Collins Publishing. ISBN 0-00-762906-0.
  • Tunstall, Brian (1990). Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail - The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1850. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0 85177 544 6.
  • Willis, Sam (2008). Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century - The Art of Sailing Warfare. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-367-3.

Gunnery and Armament

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  • Henry, Chris (2004). Napoleonic Naval Armaments 1792-1815. Botley, Oxford.: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-635-5.

Ships

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  • Christopher, John (2011). The SS Great Britain Story. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5604-1.
  • Davies, Wyn; Dennison, Geoff (2011). HMS Warrior - Ironclad frigate 1860. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-84832-095-6.
  • Davies, Wyn; Schmitz, Herb (2012). SS Great Britain - Transatlantic Liner 1843. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-84832-144-1.
  • Davies, Wyn; Mudie, Max (2015). HMS Trincomalee - 1817, frigate. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-84832-221-9.
  • Gardiner, Robert (2004). Warships of the Napoleonic Era: Design, Development and Deployment. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84832 108 3.
  • Gardiner, Robert (1992). Line of Battle : Sailing Warships, 1650-1840. London.: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0851775616.
  • Gardiner, Robert (2012). The Sailing Frigate: A History in Ship Models. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84832 295 0.
  • Goodwin, Peter (2002). Nelson's Ships - A History of the Vessels in which He Served. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0 85177 742 2.
  • Konstam, Angus (2009). British Napoleonic Ship-of-the-Line. Botley, Oxford.: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-308-8.
  • Lavery, Brian (2017). Wooden Warship construction: A History in Ship Models. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 4738 9480 8.
  • Lambert, Andrew (1997). Trincomalee: The Last of Nelson's Frigates. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1861761866.
  • Mariners' Museum (2001). A Dictionary of the World's Watercraft. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1861761828.
  • Whipple, A. B. C. (1982) [1980]. The Clipper Ships. New York: Time Life Books. ISBN 07054 0631 8.
  • Whipple, A. B. C. (1979) [1978]. Fighting Sail. New York: Time Life Books. ISBN 07054 0621 0.
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley: Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
  • Winfield, Rif (2010). First Rate - The Greatest Warships in the Age of Sail. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-071-0.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626 - 1786. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 47389351 1.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84832 204 2.

HMS Victory

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  • Eastland, Jonathan; Ballantyne, Iain (2011). HMS Victory - First rate 1765. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-84832-094-9.
  • Goodwin, Peter (2004). Nelson's Victory - 101 Questions & Answers about HMS Victory. London: Conway. ISBN 9 780851 779881.
  • Lavery, Brian (2015). Nelson's Victory - 250 Years of War and Peace. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84832 232 5.
  • McGowan, Alan (2003). HMS Victory: Her Construction, Career and Restoration. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 1 84067 532 2.

Shipwrecks

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  • Grocott, Terrence (2003). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras. Nottingham: Caxton Editions. ISBN 9781840671643.
  • Hepper, David (2023). Britain's Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1649-1860. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 3990 3102 8.
  • Rendell, Mike (2019). Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-52674-747-1.
  • Willis, Sam (2008). Shipwreck - A History of Disaster at Sea. London: Quercus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84724-762-9.

Slavery

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  • Edwards, Bernard (2007). Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders - Enforcing abolition at sea 1808-1898. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1-84415-633-7.
  • Grindal, Peter (2007). Opposing the Slavers - The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade. London: I. B. Taurus. ISBN 978-1-78831-286-8.

Soldiering

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  • Blackmore, David (2004). Destructive and Formidable - British Infantry Firepower 1642 - 1765. Barnsley: Frontline Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-768-9.
  • David, Saul (2013). All the King's Men - The British Redcoat in the Era of the Sword and Musket. London: Penguin Publishing. ISBN 978-0-141-02793-7.
  • Urban, William (2011). Matchlocks to Flintlocks - Warfare in Europe and Beyond 1500-1700. London: Frontline Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-628-6.

Wars

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  • McLynn, Frank (2004). 1759 - The Year Britain Became Master of the World. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0 224 06245 X.
  • Purkiss, Diane (2006). The English Civil War - A people's history. London: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-00-715062-5.

War in America

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  • Howard, Martin R. (2015). Death Before Glory - The British Soldier in the West Indies in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-78159-341-7.
  • Pocock, Tom (2002). Battle for Empire - The First World War, 1756-63. Nottingham: Caxton Editions. ISBN 978-1840673241.
  • Simms, Brendan (2007). Three Victories and a Defeat - The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-713-99426-1.
  • Snow, Dan (2009). Death or Victory - The battle of Quebec and the birth of Empire. London: Harper Collins Publishing. ISBN 978-0-00-728620-1.

American Revolutionary War

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  • Bicheno, Hugh (2003). Rebels and Redcoats. London: Harper Collins Publishing. ISBN 0 00 715625 1.
  • Hibbert, Christopher (1990). Redcoats and Rebels - The War for America 1770-1781. London: Grafton Books. ISBN 0-246-13467-4.
  • Jasanoff, Maya (2011). Liberty's Exiles - The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-718008-0.
  • Willis, Sam (2018). The Struggle for Seapower: The Royal Navy Versus the World, 1775-1782. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1848878471.

Anglo-American War of 1812

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  • Gardiner, Allen (2013) [1814]. John S. Rieske (ed.). Hunting the Essex - A Journal of the Voyage of HMS Phoebe 1813-1814. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-84832-174-8.
  • Gardiner, R. (2001). The Naval War of 1812. Nottingham: Caxton Editions. ISBN 978-1840673609.
  • Lambert, Andrew (2012). The Challenge - Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812. London: Faber and Faber Limited. ISBN 978-0-571-27319-5.
  • Latimer, Jon (2007). 1812 - War with America. Cambridge, Massachusetts.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674025844.
  • Snow, Peter (2013). When Britain Burned the Whitehouse - The 1814 Invasion of Washington. London: John Murray Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84854-611-0.
  • Voelcker, Tim (2013). Broke of the Shannon and the War of 1812. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 184832 179 3.

French Revolutionary and Napoleonic

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  • Adkins, Roy; Adkins Lesley (2006). The War For All The World's Oceans. Lancaster Place, London.: Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 0-316-72837-3.
  • Andress, David (2015). Beating Napoleon - How Britain faced down her greatest challenge. London: Abacus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-349-14166-4.
  • Clowes, William Laird (1996) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume I. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-010-8.
  • Clowes, William Laird (1996) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume II. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-011-6.
  • Clowes, William Laird (1996) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume III. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-012-4.
  • Clowes, William Laird (1997) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume IV. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-013-2.
  • Clowes, William Laird (1997) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume V. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-014-0.
  • Clowes, William Laird (1997) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume VI. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-015-9.
  • Clowes, William Laird (1997) [1900]. The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume VII. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-016-7.
  • Davey, James (2017). In Nelson's Wake - How the Royal Navy Ruled the Waves After Trafalgar. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-22883-0.
  • Dull, Jonathan R. (2009). The Age of the Ship of the Line. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-549-4.
  • Harvey, Robert (2006). The War of Wars - The epic struggle between Britain and France: 1789-1815. London: Constable and Robinson Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84529-635-3.
  • James, William (2002) [1827]. The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume III, 1800–1805. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-907-7.
  • James, William (2002) [1827]. The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume IV, 1805–1807. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-81170-023-2.
  • James, William (2002) [1827]. The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume V, 1808–1811. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-909-3.
  • Knight, Roger (2014). Britain Against Napoleon - The Organisation of Victory 1793-1815. London: Penguin Publishing. ISBN 978-0-141-03894-0.
  • Konstam, Angus (2003). Historical Atlas of the Napoleonic Era. London: Mercury Books. ISBN 1 904668 04 6.
  • Mostert, Noel (2007). The Line Upon a Wind: The Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail: 1793–1815. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0224069229.
  • Rodger, N.A.M (2005). The Command of the Ocean. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-140-28896-1.
  • Tracy, Nicholas; Morriss, Roger; Lyon, David; Gardiner, Robert (1996). Fleet Battle and Blockade - The French Revolutionary War 1793-1797. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1 86176 018 3.
  • Nester, William (2020). Britain's Rise to Global Superpower in the Age of Napoleon. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978 1 52677 543 6.
  • Woodmant, Richard (2003). The Victory of Seapower, 1806-14. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1861760388.

Waterloo

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  • Clayton, Tim (2015). Waterloo - Four days that changed Europe's destiny. London: Abacus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-349-12301-1.
  • Cornwell, Bernard (2014). Waterloo - The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles. London: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-753938-3.

Nelson and Trafalgar

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  • Best, Nicholas (2005) [2005]. Trafalgar. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. ISBN 0 297 84622 1.
  • Clayton, Timothy (2004). Trafalgar - The men, the battle and the storm. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 9780340830284.
  • Gardiner, Robert (1998). The Campaign of Trafalgar: 1803 - 1805. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-028-0.
  • Gardiner, Robert (2001). Nelson against Napoleon: From the Nile to Copenhagen 1798 - 1801. London: Caxton Editions. ISBN 978-1840673616.
  • Lavery, Brian (2004). Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar. Greenwich: National Maritime Museum. ISBN 0 948065 49 4.
  • Lee, Christopher (2005) [2005]. Nelson and Napoleon. London: Headline Book Publishing. ISBN 0 7553 1041 1.
  • Stilwell, Alexander (Ed.) (2005) [2005]. The Trafalgar Companion. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1 84176 835 9.
  • White, Colin (2002). The Nelson Encyclopaedia. Park House, Russell Gardens, London.: Chatham Publishing, Lionel Leventhal Limited. ISBN 1-86176-253-4.
  • White, Colin (2005). Nelson the Admiral. Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7509-3713-0.

Other battles and engagements

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  • Carruthers, Bob (Ed.) (2012). Sea Battles in the Age of Sail. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978 1 78159 162 8.
  • Fitchett, F. W. (2007). Naval Battles of the Napoleonic Wars: Cape St. Vincent, the Nile, Cadiz, Copenhagen, Trafalgar & Others. Leonaur Publishing. ISBN 9781846773143.
  • Lyon, David (1996). The Age of Nelson - Sea Battles in Close-up. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0711022836.
  • Tracy, Nicholas (2008) [1996]. Nelson's Battles - The Triumph of British Seapower. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84832 009 3.
  • Willis, Sam (2013). In the Hour of Victory - The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson. London: Atlantic Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0-85789-570-7.
  • Woodman, Richard (2014) [2001]. The Sea Warriors – Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84832 202 8.

Victorian

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  • Hernon, Ian (2016). Britain's Forgotten Wars: Colonial Campaigns of the 19th Century. Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press. ISBN 978 0 7509 3162 5.
  • David, Saul (2005). Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879. London: Penguin Publishing. ISBN 978 0 141 90143 5.
  • Farwell, Bryan (2009). Victoria's Little Wars. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781848840157.
  • Grant, James (2012) [1894]. The Zulu War Through Contemporary Eyes. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Publishing. ISBN 178159144-X.

Other Historical

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  • Brindle, Steven (2005). Brunel - The Man Who Built the World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-7538-2125-1.
  • Emmerson, Charles (2013). 1913 - The World Before the Great War. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 9781847922267.
  • MacCannell, Daniel (2021). Coastal Defences of the British Empire in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978 1 52675 345 8.
  • May, Trevor (2014). Smugglers and Smuggling. Oxford: Shire Publications Limited. ISBN 978-0-74781-207-4.
  • Osborne, Roger (2013). Iron, Steam & Money - The Making of the Industrial Revolution. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 9781847921895.
  • Wilson, Ben (2016). Heydey - Britain and the Birth of the Modern World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978 0 297 86410 3.