Britain at Bay : Defence Against Bonaparte, 1803-14 (Paperback)

Part 1: Introduction 1. Background 2. The Organisation of British Defence 3. The Admiralty’s Tasks 4. The Boulogne Flotilla 5. Fortifications: Britain’s Counter to the Boulogne Flotilla 6. Raising Men For Defence and Counter-Attack, 1803-14 Part 2: Documents 1. Questions to Admiral Lord Keith, Commanding the North Sea Fleet from H.R.H the Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, 19 October 1803 2. Lord Keith’s Answer, Monarch, off Broadstairs, 21 October 1803 3. Duties of the Ordnance Department 4. Intelligence: Bonaparte’s Methods. Bonaparte to Marshal Berthier, 28 August 1805 5. Intelligence: The Opportunities of Smugglers. Sir John Moore Reports to the Home Office, 17 February 1804 6. Intelligence: News from Deserters, Atlantic Theatre. D’Augvergne to J. W. Croker, Jersey, 11 September 1811 7. Intelligence: Report on the Basque Roads from an Escaped Prisoner of War 8. Intelligence: Checking an Agent’s Story. D’Auvergne to J. W. Croker, Jersey, 23 October 1811 9. Intelligence: Reading the Enemy’s Semaphore Signals. Collingwood to W. W. Pole, Ville de Paris, off Toulon, 20 July 1809 10. Intelligence: A Commander-in-Chief’s Monthly Report, Atlantic Theatre. Gambier to the Admiralty, 1 November 1808 11. Intelligence: a Commander-in-Chief’s Monthly Report, Mediterranean Theatre. Gambier to the Admiralty, 1 November 1808 12. Intelligence: The Enemy’s Coasting Trade, Atlantic Theatre. Rear Admiral Keats to Admiral Lord St. Vincent, from ‘off Chasseron, 31 March 1807’ 13. Intelligence: The Enemy’s Coasting Trade; Methods in Atlantic Theatre. Report from Capt. Lord Aemilius Beauclerk, of the Saturn, 16 December 1808 14. Bonaparte’s Naval Planning, 1805 15. Bonaparte’s Planning after 1805: a Proposal of March 1808 16. Bonaparte’s Planning After 1805: Draft Plan for 1812. Bonaparte to Decres, 17 September 1810 17. Bonaparte’s Planning after 1805: Choice of a Port of Assembly. Bonaparte to Decres, 16 August 1811 18. Bonaparte’s Naval Programme: A Reminder to the Minister of Marine. Bonaparte to Decres, 17 September 1810 19. Bonaparte’s Naval Programme: Expose of 30 June 1811 20. Bonaparte’s Naval Programme: Tasks Ordered for 1813-14. Bonaparte to Decres, 23 January 1813 21. The Fortification of England’s South Coast: The Martello Towers 22. The Fortification of England’s South Coast: Romney Marsh 23. The Fortification of Eastern England: The Problem of Landguard Fort. Memoir of Gen. Sir James Craig, 11 July 1804 24. British Manpower: The Royal Navy and the Problem of the Sham Americans 25. British Manpower: Report on the Royal Artillery, 1803. Lord Chatham to the Duke of York, 7 July, with Enclosure 26. British Manpower: The Progress of the Volunteers 27. British Manpower: Marching Orders for the Volunteers 28. British Manpower: Recruiting the Regular Army 30. British Manpower: the Commander-in-Chief on Recruiting. Duke of York to Rt. Hon. William Windham, Secretary of State for War and Colonies, 18 March 1806.