Counterpoint to Trafalgar : the Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples, 1805-1806
Counterpoint to Trafalgar offers the first detailed account of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Naples, the important land and sea campaign in the Napoleonic wars that prevented Napoleon from controlling the Mediterranean during the War of the Third Coalition. William Henry Flayhart recounts the exciting story of the chaotic efforts of the joint British and Russian military force during the invasion of southern Italy. In 1805 Napoleonic France and Great Britain were locked in a naval duel for maritime supremacy. A British military expedition was sent to the Mediterranean to preserve the independence of Naples. Joining with a Russian Army troop nearby, the combined forces invaded southern Italy in order to place allied troops between the French in the north and Naples in the south. The sailing of the two great convoys carrying more than 20,000 Russian and British troops was too great a prize for Napoleon to ignore, and the emperor ordered the French fleet to enter the Mediterranean and destroy the
Print Book, English, 2004
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2004