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After half a decade of war a precarious balance had been struck between undefeated British seapower and the all-conquering armies of the revolutionary French Republic. This was to be overturned dramatically in 1798 when their respective champions, Admiral Nelson and General Bonaparte, clashed in the campaign for Egypt, prompting renewed continental fighting as Austria and Russia returned to arms.

This volume is devoted to the great wars of 1793-1815 and charts the naval events of 1798 to 1801, a period which saw Napoleon’s frustration before Acre and which included two of Nelson’s greatest Victories, at the Nile and Copenhagen. The Royal Navy fought alongside some exotic allies during their period, including the Russians, Turks and Neopolitains, all of whom are represented, while the new navy of the United States, going into action for the first time in the Quasi-War with France, is also covered in this volume.

For Britain this continued to be an essentially maritime war, and the illustration sources are particularly rich in naval material for these years. As with the rest of the series, the visual emphasis is on the contemporary and original, and Nelson against Napoleon reproduces many previously unpublished images.

The historical introductions were written by Dr. Roger Morriss, who has just (at this time of publishing) from the National Maritime Museum to take up a full time career as a writer. He is best known for his study “The Royal Dockyards in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”, but has recently completed a survey of british naval documents in North American archives. Davis Lyon is a major contributor to this volume. He is well known author of numerous works of naval history, including the definitive catalogues of British warships in the age of sail, The Sailing Navy List. Other text and captions were provided by the editorial team of Chatham Publishing under the editorship of Robert Gardiner, the author of number of works on sailing warships, and guiding hand behind the recently completed twelve-volume “History of the Ship”-series.