Amazon moves toward the Baltic crisis

The book review widens from one frigate to the strategic crisis of 1800-1801. Austria's defeat at Hohenlinden left Britain isolated against France while Russia, Denmark-Norway, Prussia, and Sweden formed the League of Armed Neutrality around resistance to British stop-and-search practices. London treated the league's ability to restrict access to Baltic naval stores as a threat to the Royal Navy's capacity to continue the war. At the same time, French invasion fears shifted frigates such as Amazon toward North Sea surveillance. Trade law, maritime logistics, invasion defense, and Baltic geography pushed the fleet toward the Copenhagen campaign.