Usual – non-exhaustive list, in some cases use of a VPN will be required for non-US, those without fast internet should think very carefully whether to attempt to try and download any items where multiple volumes can be downloaded in one go or where I have indicated big or large download. I may add to this list if and when I find other suitable material.
A History of the Royal Navy from the earliest times to the wars of the French revolution
Nicholas Harris Nicolas
Richard Bentley, London 1847
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The naval history of Great Britain: from the declaration of war by France in 1793, to the accession of George IV
William James
Richard Bentley, London 1837
PDF link (6 volumes in one download)
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
Volume 3 link
Volume 4 link
Volume 5 link
Volume 6
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The battle of Trafalgar
Philip Howard Colomb
W. Clowes & sons limited, London 1905
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The campaign of Trafalgar
Julian Stafford Corbett
Longmans, Green, and co, London & New York 1919
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Volume 1 link
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Volume 2
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Logs of the great sea fights, 1794-1805
Sir Thomas Sturges Jackson
London 1899
Volume 1 PDF link
Volume 2 PDF link
The enemy at Trafalgar: an account of the battle from eye-witnesses' narratives and letters and despatches from the French and Spanish fleets
Edward Fraser
Dutton, New York 1906
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A full and correct account of the military occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America
William James
London 1818
Volume 1 link (maps are not folded out)
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Volume 2
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Sketches of the last naval war (Translated from the French by [E.] Plunkett)
Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière,
Longman, Brown, London 1848
Volume 1 link (maps are not folded out)
Volume 2 link (maps are not folded out)
The influence of sea power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812
Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston 1898
Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812
Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Little, Brown, and company, Boston 1905
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
St Vincent & Camperdown
Christopher Lloyd
The Macmillan Company, 1963
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A narrative of the Battle of St. Vincent; with anecdotes of Nelson, before and after that battle
Drinkwater Bethune
Saunders and Otley, London 1840
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The contest for the command of Lake Erie in 1812-1813
Ernest Alexander Cruikshank
Toronto ??
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The naval war of 1812; or, The history of the United States navy during the last war with Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt
G. P. Putnam's sons, New York 1882
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The naval war of 1812; or, The history of the United States navy during the last war with Great Britain, to which is appended an account of the battle of New Orleans
Theodore Roosevelt
Gebbie and company, Philadelphia 1902 – 1910
Volume 1 PDF link
Volume 2 PDF link
The fight for a free sea; a chronicle of the War of 1812
Ralph Delahaye Paine
Yale University Press, New Haven 1921
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The Naval War of 1812: a documentary history
William S. Dudley
???
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
Volume 3 link
Naval actions of the war of 1812
A. James Barnes
Osgood, London 1897
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An inquiry into the merits of the principal naval actions, between Great-Britain and the United States comprising an account of all British and American ships of war, reciprocally captured and destroyed since the 18th of June 1812
William James
Halifax 1816
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The navies on Lake Ontario in the War of 1812
Barlow Cumberland
W. Briggs, Toronto 1907
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Naval wars in the Baltic during the sailing-ship epoch, 1522-1850
Roger Charles Anderson
C. Gilbertwood, London 1910
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The naval mutinies of 1797
Conrad Gill
University Press, Manchester 1913
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History of the mutiny at Spithead and the Nore: with an enquiry into its origin and treatment: and suggestions for the prevention of future discontent in the Royal Navy
William Johnson Neale
T. Tegg, London 1842
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Lord Hood and the defence of Toulon
John Holland Rose
The University Press, Cambridge 1922
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Batailles navales de la France
Onésime Joachim Troude
Challamel ainé, 1867
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
Volume 3 link link
Volume 4 link
The life of Nelson, the embodiment of the sea power of Great Britain
Alfred Thayer Mahan
G.N. Morang Toronto 1899
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The naval history of Great Britain, from the year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXII
Edward Pelham Brenton
C. Rice, London 1923
Volume 1 PDF link
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Volume 2 PDF link
Volume 3 PDF link
Volume 4 PDF link
Volume 5 PDF link
Or as a 2 volume set
Volume 1 link
Volume 2 link
Naval wars in the Levant, 1559-1853
Roger Charles Anderson
Princeton University Press, Princeton1952
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1793-1805; projets et tentatives de débarquement aux îles Britanniques
Edouard Desbrier̀e
R. Chapelot, Paris 1900
Volume 1 PDF link
Volume 2 PDF link
Volume 3 PDF link
Volume 4
Part 1& 2 PDF link
Part 3 PDF link
La campagne maritime de 1805: Trafalgar
Edouard Desbrier̀e
R. Chapelot, Paris 1907
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Le blocus de Brest de 1793 à 1805
Edouard Desbrière
R. Chapelot et cie, Paris 1902
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Histoire des combats d'Aboukir, de Trafalgar, de Lissa, du cap Finistère, et de plusieurs autres batailles navales, depuis 1798 jusqu'en 1813, suivie de la relation du combat de Navarin ; ou Notions de tactique pour les combats sur mer ; par un capitaine de vaisseau
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Bachelier, Paris 1829
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Combat du cap Ortégal, 13 brumaire an XIV (4 novembre 1805). Épilogue de la bataille de Trafalgar
Ferdinand Gemähling
Chaix, Paris 1882
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Histoire de la marine française…
Louis Édouard Chevalier
Hachette et cie, 1886
Sous la Premiere Republique PDF link
sous le Consulat et l'Empire PDF link
The dispatches and letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
Horatio Nelson (with notes by Nicholas Harris Nicolas)
Henry Colburn, London 1844
Volume 1 (1777 to 1794) PDF link
Volume 2 (1795 to 1797) PDF link
Volume 3 (January 1798 to August 1799) PDF link
Volume 4 (September 1799 to December 1801) PDF link
Volume 5 (January 1802 to April 1804) PDF link
Volume 6 (May 1804 to July 1805) PDF link
Volume 7 (August to October 1805) PDF link
Admiral Duncan
Robert Adam Philips Haldane Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown
Longmans, Green, and co, London, New York and Bombay 1898
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BOOKS THAT CAN BE BORROWED FOR AN HOUR AT ATIME (AND RENEWABLE)
The great gamble.
Dudley Pope
Simon & Schuster 1972
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Nelson's battles
Oliver Warner
Macmillan, New York 1965
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The Battle of Copenhagen, 1801: Nelson and the Danes
by Feldbæk, Ole.
L. Cooper 2002
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The Trafalgar companion : a guide to history's most famous sea battle and the life of Admiral Lord Nelson
Mark Adkin & Clive Farmer,
Aurum Press, London2005
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Nelson against Napoleon: from the Nile to Copenhagen, 1798-1801
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md. in association with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Chatham Pub, London 1997
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Nelson's band of brothers: lives and memorials
Peter Hore
Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley 2015
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The floating republic: an account of the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797
George Ernest Manwaring
??? 2004
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War in the Eastern seas, 1793-1815
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Allen & Unwin, London 1954
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The war in the Mediterranean, 1803-1810. --
Piers Mackesy
Longmans, Green, London 1957
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The Battle of Trafalgar
Geoffrey Martin Bennett
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md. 1977
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explores the Master & Commander starter set for Black Seas.
