"HMS Quebec off Nordeney: Small Boat Action 1811" Topic
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Tango01 | 23 Jul 2019 10:06 p.m. PST |
"When reading of the Royal Navy's role in the Napoleonic Wars, one is always struck by the dogged determination with which a blockade of the French and French-controlled coasts of Europe was maintained for more than two decades. One imagines the blockade in terms of sealing off these coasts to commercial traffic as well as to movement of warships. In the later stages of the conflict however, when Napoleon introduced his "Continental System" to close all Europe off to trade with Britain, an important role for the Navy became an economic one – to facilitate smuggling of British goods into French-controlled countries, while preventing trade in the opposite direction. This was perhaps nowhere more notable than along the shores of the German Bight, those of the northern Netherlands and the German states, all controlled by the French, and of the western coast of Denmark, a country that was to be at war with Britain from 1807 to 1814. A dramatic illustration of the nature of Royal Navy operations in these waters is provided by the actions of HMS Quebec off Nordeney in 1811…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
stecal | 24 Jul 2019 1:02 p.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 25 Jul 2019 11:21 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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