The glorious First of June: fleet battle in the reign of terror

✍ Scribed by Willis, Sam

• Publisher: Quercus
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 804 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: London, France, Great Britain, France., Great Britain.
• ISBN: 1849160392

✦ Synopsis

First terror -- First surrender -- First and greatest sea officer -- First war artist -- First convoy -- First contact -- First blood -- First of June -- First reaction: honour and glory -- Second reaction: acrimony and disgrace -- Second terror.;On 1 June 1794, after a week of skirmishing, the French and British fleets came to close quarters in the northwest Atlantic, some 400 miles off the coast of Brittany. No battle had ever been fought so far from land. The French were escorting a American grain convoy to Brest to feed a starving population; the British were bent on destroying the battle fleet of the nascent French Republic. Both sides would claim victory in the ensuing battle; and both had reason to do so. In 'The Glorious First of June' Sam Willis tells, with thrilling immediacy and masterly clarity, the gripping story of an epic and complex battle.

✦ Subjects

Great Britain