Why Britain's Royal Navy Ruled The Waves, w/Andrew Lambert and Rachel Blackman-Rogers

Help us produce more episodes by supporting the Napoleonic Quarterly on Patreon: patreon.com/napoleonicquarterly Rachel Blackman-Rogers discusses Britain's naval and maritime strategy throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars with Professor Andrew Lambert of King's College London's Department of War Studies. [2:38] - misconceptions of naval fiction [6:35] - prize money [9:22] - the City and the Admiralty [12:18] - the bond between officers and men (and when it got broken) [14:33] - the 'we were treated horribly' sub-genre of maritime memoir literature [16:28] - impressment as an occupational hazard [19:46] - everything wrong with the French navy [24:18] - targeting French privateers [27:56] - French colonial losses [32:47] - the Scheldt as the big British invasion launchpad [39:48] - Europe's transformed armies after 1805/6 [41:36] - how Britain helped - and fought - the Russian navy [44:44] - the War of 1812 [52:02] - how Britain's focus on sound money helped the war effort [55:27] - why Britain's Caribbean colony-grabbing wasn't entirely imperialistic [57:43] - how Nelson lived on after Trafalgar.