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- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign2:09French command after Latouche-TrévilleNotable Point
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- Bruships 55: New Books3:50:07Why defeating Britain required a workable invasionQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:22:10Two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in Nelson's fleetQ&A
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- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:00:59Napoleon's Haiti policy and the limits of episode scopeNotable Point
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- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/71:46Boulogne and the landing geographyNotable Point
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/73:21Britain's prepared southern coastNotable Point
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/74:56Maneuver and supply after landingChapter
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/78:42The fleet-breakout gambleNotable Point
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- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/713:08Transports under coastal warningChapter
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/713:45Martello towers threaten the landing's supply boatsNotable Point
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- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol33:08Diamond Rock as economy of forceNotable Point
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- A Book or Two to Review (3): Strategy, A History10:10Napoleon's decisive-battle risk logicNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.3:35A source for the Napoleonic War in the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.29:23Linois later met convoy deception in reverseNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:19:11Pulo Aura turns merchantmen into a deception forceChapter
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:22:00Intelligence and commercial stakes before Pulo AuraChapter
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:40:50Pulo Aura's attack and chase sell the illusionNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune16:21Amazon moves toward the Baltic crisisChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune16:21Amazon watches invasion ports on the Dutch coastNotable Point
- Blockade18:41Trafalgar, experienced personnel, and French fleet recoveryNotable Point
- Blockade19:50The Continental System without sea controlNotable Point
- Blockade21:51How the Continental System widened the warChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:58:25Why Britain limited its War of 1812 commitmentQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:08:18Wellington and Napoleon as contrasting logistics modelsNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:09:59How Napoleon held a multinational Grande Armee togetherChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:41:42The Napoleonic Wars were also an Indian Ocean conflictChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class1:26Marshal Ney and Marshal Soult lend their names to British monitorsChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval2:32:57A French origin story for Beef WellingtonNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments8:49Why naval initiative changes from one era to anotherQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:00:35The overlooked weight of Ottoman and Venetian naval powerQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:18:15Roosevelt on national survival and neutral rightsNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:20:39American neutral trade and Britain's need for sailorsNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:30:15How the European war shaped British memories of 1812Notable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:36:22Peninsula veterans in a continued Anglo-American warNotable Point
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)40:50Beckwith commands from the front at fifty-sevenNotable Point
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)1:15:59The 1810 map puts Spanish claims beside CanadaNotable Point
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)1:17:40An island campaign serving a wider allied warNotable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today10:44Why Guadeloupe mattered in February 1810Chapter
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today17:28Did Napoleonic naval history continue after Trafalgar?Q&A
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today18:06Why Caribbean colonies mattered to BritainChapter
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today21:36Is there a good study of Britain's Santo Domingo campaign?Q&A
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today22:22Britain's peripheral strategy in the Napoleonic WarsNotable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today26:39Did the Danish West Indies become the U.S. Virgin Islands?Q&A
- Four Random Books 23: 1930s Thinking...0:42Theodore Roosevelt's blockade lesson from the War of 1812Chapter
- Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 126:38Why Britain turned its fleet against AlgiersChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History11:33British global commitments and the naval reversal in 1813Chapter
- Bruships 34: Random History22:59Why did the United States choose war with Britain in 1812?Q&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations43:07Frigates and troops compel Ponza to surrenderNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:38:18How could a navy turn landsmen into capable sailors?Q&A
- Four Random Books 17: General Ship & Total War10:30Wellington amid the unstable Bourbon RestorationChapter
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:44:20Britain's strategy of clearing the wider maritime war firstNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2222:54Why older maritime wars preserved merchant hullsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy22:22Coalition war and Britain's maritime advantageChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy36:50Could Napoleon have secured a European stalemate?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy2:06:17A great victory that did not end the warNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle6:56Why the coalition wars could still be French victoriesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:07:44Fred Jane's British Battle Fleet as institutional historyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson5:28A readable history of the naval war, 1793-1815Chapter
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson8:15Reading lively naval history with an eye on its referencesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson9:11Following Trafalgar through its ships and mapsChapter
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson13:21Nelson's burden and Britain's remaining fleetsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson14:19Why high-command backing mattered to NelsonNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:14:27Why Trafalgar's aftermath mattered as much as the battleNotable Point
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p2 of 213:46The legal case for striking DenmarkChapter
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p2 of 214:51Denmark's strategic paradox after losing the fleetNotable Point
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 22:08The Continental System and Britain's Baltic lifelineChapter
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 26:14Denmark's strategic bind and its naval consequencesNotable Point
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 213:58Cathcart's overlooked role in coalition diplomacyNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era2:26:32Did HMS Tartar carry 24-pounder guns at Christiansand?Q&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:35:42Funding Chinese resistance in the Napoleonic coalition styleNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 459:49Blockade and an American casus belliChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:31:00Early naval covert insertion in the Napoleonic WarsQ&A
- An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.12:25The Peninsular War’s maritime supply systemChapter
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:35:44World wars and the Second Hundred Years' WarNotable Point