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The ability to influence world events through control of seaborne trade was affected by 19th-century developments in economic theory, commercial organization and naval technology, and by the growing power of the United States. In consequence the international law of belligerent rights at sea was amended.

Nicholas Tracy, adjunct professor of history at the University of New Brunswick and member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, is the author of fifteen books, including Britannia's Palette: The Arts of Naval Victory.

A consolidated edition of the most significant British naval news and views from the original 40-volume series.

From 1799 to 1819 the annual "Naval Chronicle" was considered the most reliable and comprehensive record of naval events. This consolidated edition contains all the most significant material from the originals.

Nicholas Tracy, adjunct professor of history at the University of New Brunswick and member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, is the author of fifteen books, including Britannia's Palette: The Arts of Naval Victory.

An Extraordinary Rescue That Was Used as Proof of Divine Intervention and the Power of Prayer- The book reconstructs this extraordinary tale revealing how those aboard the Kent faced their deaths, and their reactions to being offered a second chance.

In this study Nicholas Tracy considers the motives for attack on maritime trade, and assesses its strategic utility.

Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the se...

Here is a brilliant study of the naval battles that played such an important role in Napoleon's defeat.

On 19th February, 1825, the Kent, an East Indiaman, set sail for India and China with 641 people on board - including more than 100 women and children. On the evening of the 28th, whilst in the Bay of Biscay, the Kent was struck by an almighty storm.

Analyses the crucial battle in British naval history, in 1759.

This series draws on the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich to illustrate the great maritime events of the prephotographic era.