Mann, Admiral Robert
Autograph letter, signed, to Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker at Saint-Domingue, HMS Windsor Castle, off Gibraltar, 28 July 1796.
British Naval Intelligence from Gibraltar to the Caribbean and Newfoundland During the French Revolutionary Wars
An important group of British naval intelligence letters documenting the defense of Britain’s Atlantic empire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with direct relevance to the Caribbean, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Jamaica, Haiti, and the maritime approaches to North America. The correspondence vividly illustrates the enormous geographic scope of the conflict and the fragility of transatlantic communications at a moment when control of the Caribbean and North Atlantic fisheries was central to imperial strategy.
An important group of British naval intelligence letters documenting the defense of Britain’s Atlantic empire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with direct relevance to the Caribbean, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Jamaica, Haiti, and the maritime approaches to North America. The correspondence vividly illustrates the enormous geographic scope of the conflict and the fragility of transatlantic communications at a moment when control of the Caribbean and North Atlantic fisheries was central to imperial strategy.
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