Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER XII EVENTS ON THE CONTINENT, 1798-1800
- CHAPTER XIII EVENTS OF 1801
- CHAPTER XIV OUTLINE OF EVENTS FROM THE SIGNATURE OF THE PRELIMINARIES TO THE RUPTURE OF THE PEACE OF AMIENS
- CHAPTER XV THE TRAFALGAR CAMPAIGN TO THE SPANISH DECLARATION OF WAR. MAY, 1803—DECEMBER, 1804
- CHAPTER XVI THE TRAFALGAR CAMPAIGN—CONCLUDED. JANUARY — OCTOBER, 1805
- CHAPTER XVII THE WARFARE AGAINST COMMERCE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE, TO THE BERLIN DECREE. 1793–1806
- CHAPTER XVIII THE WARFARE AGAINST COMMERCE, 1806–1812
- CHAPTER XIX SUMMARY. — THE FUNCTION OF SEA POWER AND THE POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XIII - EVENTS OF 1801
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER XII EVENTS ON THE CONTINENT, 1798-1800
- CHAPTER XIII EVENTS OF 1801
- CHAPTER XIV OUTLINE OF EVENTS FROM THE SIGNATURE OF THE PRELIMINARIES TO THE RUPTURE OF THE PEACE OF AMIENS
- CHAPTER XV THE TRAFALGAR CAMPAIGN TO THE SPANISH DECLARATION OF WAR. MAY, 1803—DECEMBER, 1804
- CHAPTER XVI THE TRAFALGAR CAMPAIGN—CONCLUDED. JANUARY — OCTOBER, 1805
- CHAPTER XVII THE WARFARE AGAINST COMMERCE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE, TO THE BERLIN DECREE. 1793–1806
- CHAPTER XVIII THE WARFARE AGAINST COMMERCE, 1806–1812
- CHAPTER XIX SUMMARY. — THE FUNCTION OF SEA POWER AND THE POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
By the peace of Lunéville Great Britain was left alone, and for the moment against all Europe. The ministry met the emergency with vigor and firmness, though possibly with too much reliance upon diplomacy and too little upon the military genius of the great seaman whose services were at their disposal. Upon the Continent nothing could be effected, all resistance to France had been crushed by the genius of Bonaparte; but time had to be gained for the expedition then under way against Egypt and destined to compel its evacuation by the French. The combination in the North also must be quickly dissolved, if the country were to treat on anything like equal terms.
An armed negotiation with the Baltic powers, similar to that employed with Denmark the preceding August, was therefore determined; and a fleet of eighteen sail-of-the-line with thirty-five smaller vessels was assembled at Yarmouth, on the east coast of England. Rapidity of movement was essential to secure the advantage from the ice, which, breaking up in the harbors less rapidly than in the open water, would delay the concentration of the hostile navies; and also to allow the Baltic powers the least possible time to prepare for hostilities which they had scarcely anticipated.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1893