French Revolutionary War
The search result below lists those novels which are based around the French Revolution and the subsequent war (1792-1802).
- 1. A Tainted Dawn
- (Matching tags: B. N. Peacock,The Great War (1792-1815),French Revolutionary War)
- ... treaty with Spain, readies her warships. Three youths - the son of an English carpenter, the son of a naval captain, and the son of a French court tailor - meet in London, a chance encounter that entwines ...
- 2. The Flag of Freedom
- (Matching tags: French Revolutionary War,Nathan Peake,Seth Hunter)
- 1797 Britain stands alone against the forces of Revolutionary France. A victorious French Army, led by the youthful Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised to invade Britain. And in his country's ...
- 3. A Ship of War
- (Matching tags: S. Thomas Russell,French Revolutionary War,Charles Hayden)
- 1794 Charles Hayden sets off aboard the ill-fated HMS Themis with orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. On discovering ...
- 4. Cut and Run
- (Matching tags: Alaric Bond,Fighting Sail,French Revolutionary War)
- ... option when his captain is revealed to be an old enemy. With the added perils of privateers, storms, and the might of the French Navy, he finds there is just as much excitement in the merchant service, ...
- 5. Acre
- (Matching tags: Tom Grundner,Sir Sidney Smith Nautical Adv.,French Revolutionary War,Siege of Acre)
- 1799 Nelson has defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, and Bonaparte is trapped in Egypt. Unfortunately, Bonaparte doesn't see it that way, and that fact brings into conflict ...
- 6. Enemies at Every Turn
- (Matching tags: David Donachie,John Pearce,French Revolutionary War)
- Free from jail, John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole, they want bloody revenge and are prepared to chase him to the ends of the earth to get it. Two of his ...
- 7. The Winds of Folly
- (Matching tags: Seth Hunter,Nathan Peake,French Revolutionary War)
- 1796 Nathan Peake, captain of the frigate Unicorn is sent with a small squadron into the Adriatic to help bring Venice into an Italian alliance against the French. He establishes a British ...
- 8. Before The Wind: A Novel of Conflict at Sea
- (Matching tags: Lloyd M. Moxon,French Revolutionary War)
- ... waters, St. John displays stunning skill and success as a privateer. So desperate are the French to rid their waters of his small but dreaded brig Rapid that they plot to send their mightiest ship of the ...
- 9. The Powder Monkey: A 1798 Story
- (Matching tags: Bill Wall,Donal Long,French Revolutionary War)
- 1798 Set in the troubled days of the 1798 Rebellion, The Powder Monkey is the story of a boy, Donal Long, who steals a boat to escape his violent uncle and is picked up by a British warship. ...
- 10. Blown Off Course
- (Matching tags: David Donachie,John Pearce,French Revolutionary War)
- Lieutenant John Pearce is in London seeking protection for his friends, the Pelicans, from a reluctant Admiralty. Sat in the Pelican Tavern where they were first press-ganged, he wonders ...
- 11. True Colours
- (Matching tags: Alaric Bond,Fighting Sail,French Revolutionary War,Battle of Camperdown,Spithead Nore Mutinees)
- ... in one of the most devastating sea battles of the French Revolutionary War - the Battle of Camperdown. Author: Alaric Bond Title: True Colours Series: Fighting Sail ...
- 12. The Price of Glory
- (Matching tags: Nathan Peake,Seth Hunter,French Revolutionary War)
- Nathan Peake charts a perilous course through the treacherous seas off Brittany and into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the ...
- 13. A Battle Won
- (Matching tags: S. Thomas Russell,Charles Hayden,French Revolutionary War)
- ... Hayden's uncanny knack for attracting the attention of the French navy sees the Themis thrown back into action only hours out of port. Soon Hayden's captaincy and military skills are stretched to the ...
- 14. An Ill Wind
- (Matching tags: David Donachie,John Pearce,French Revolutionary War)
- ... made worse when it is discovered many of the French ships singled out for destruction have been saved by the Spanish; was it naive to expect help from a nation more often an enemy than a friend? Captain ...
- 15. His Majesty's Frigate
- (Matching tags: Cocky Penhaligon,Simon White,French Revolutionary War)
- Captain Penhaligon and Avenger escort a convoy of East Indiamen to Madeira The action includes fights with the French and Spanish. Author: Simon White Title: ...
- 16. Clear for Action
- (Matching tags: Cocky Penhaligon,Simon White,French Revolutionary War)
- After Penhaligon elopes with the daughter of the admiral commanding Minorca, the angry father orders the Avenger to the Western Mediterranean to harass French shipping. The ...
- 17. The English Captain
- (Matching tags: Cocky Penhaligon,Simon White,French Revolutionary War)
- 1800 Captain Jethro Cockerill "Cocky" Penhaligon is given command of the 32-gun frigate Avenger by Horatio Nelson. He is assigned the task of destroying the French 74 Gironde which ...
- 18. The Temple
- (Matching tags: Tom Grundner,Sir Sidney Smith Nautical Adv.,French Revolutionary War,Battle of the Nile)
- 1798 It's 1798 and Sir Sidney Smith is languishing in "The Temple," France's maximum security prison. For the past two years he had been running the Agence de Paris - Britain's primary spy ...
- 19. Child O'War
- (Matching tags: Leon Garfield,French Revolutionary War,Battle of the Nile)
- Having joined the British Navy at the age of five and a half, little John Lee was the youngest midshipman to sail the seas during the bloody era that followed the French Revolution. ...
- 20. The Commander of the Hirondelle: A Tale of the Great Blockade
- (Matching tags: William Henry Fitchett,French Revolutionary War,Battle of Cape St. Vincent)
- Lieutenant Harry Gaunt is given the task of capuring the Hirondelle. Having succeeded he is given command and the ship is variously employed, including being present at the Battle ...
- 21. True Blue: or, The Life and Adventures of a British Seaman of the old School
- (Matching tags: W. H. G. Kingston,French Revolutionary War,Glorious First of June)
- From an Introduction by Herbert Strang. The present volume gives a capital description of life in the Navy in days of the old three-decker, and many interesting particulars of the ...
- 22. Broadsides: A Novel of the Napoleonic Era
- (Matching tags: R. W. Daly,French Revolutionary War,Siege of Acre,Battle of Cape St. Vincent,Glorious First of June,Battle of Trafalgar,Napoleonic War,Siege of Toulon)
- ... But England is about to go to war with revolutionary France and since MacMurrough holds a commission in the French navy, O'Corboy joins the Royal Navy as the best way to get at him. During his careers ...
- 23. The Tide of War
- (Matching tags: Nathan Peake,Seth Hunter,French Revolutionary War)
- ... certainly by members of his own crew. Peake struggles to forge this mutinous gang of reprobates into a fighting force, as they prepare to meet the French Virginie in Caribbean waters. But he soon discovers ...
- 24. The Time of Terror
- (Matching tags: Nathan Peake,Seth Hunter,French Revolutionary War)
- 1793 The French have killed their king and are about to embark on the violent period of bloodletting known as the Terror. Brig-sloop Commander Nathan Peake is on smuggler patrol off the Sussex ...
- 25. Tested by Fate
- (Matching tags: David Donachie,The Nelson and Emma Trilogy,French Revolutionary War,Battle of Cape St. Vincent,Battle of the Nile)
- 1784 It's 1784 and Nelson is sent to the Caribbean to enforce the hated Navigation Acts. While there, he marries Fanny Nisbet. Ordered next to the Mediterranean, he engages in a string ...
- 26. Close Quarters
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1801 The Alkon has an encounter with Spanish gunboats before Gibraltar. On convoy duty to England Fox captures the Archimede - a French submersible and its inventor Marcel Bruant.. ...
- 27. Sea Flame
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1801 Fox and his crew open the door to Cairo for the English army. He has to guard a troublesome band of French prisoners. When his ship the Alkon is separated from the fleet, French privateers ...
- 28. Blood Beach
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1800- 1801 Fox survives the burning fireship he has steered into a French harbour . Back in England his valour brings him neither command nor the favours of Sophy Kintlesham. Frustrated he ...
- 29. The Fireship
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- ... of his career yet - for he commands a fireship. Undeterred by the danger, Fox sails into the French harbour, his ship flaming like hellfire and determined to succeed he remains on board to the last, ...
- 30. Boarders Away
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- ... carries out many daring raids up and down the French coast, but Lord Lymm is determined to bring down this young upstart and deprives him of fighting men. With only a handful of loyal followers G. A. Fox ...
- 31. Cut and Thrust
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1800 Forced on land for leave George Abercrombie Fox finds that female company more than compensates for the loss of the sea. Particularly the company of Jenny Blane, at one time the victim ...
- 32. The Press Gang
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1797 George Abercrombie Fox possessed of enormous talent and courage, although virtually devoid of noble patronage, now serves as second lieutenant in the His Majesty's frigate Duchess. With ...
- 33. Battle Smoke
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1799- 1800 Britain was acknowledged as supreme on the high seas in the Napoleonic wars, but her supremacy was constantly challenged by her centuries-old enemies, France and Spain. She could ...
- 34. Court Martial
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1799 In Nelson's day the punishments inflicted by the Royal Navy were notoriously brutal and barbaric. George Abercrombie Fox, ruthless and ambitious hero of "Treasure" and "Blood for Breakfast", ...
- 35. Blood for Breakfast
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- This book has been released under the following alternate titles:- Sea of Gold 1799 The Treasure now lost, Fox is beset by his shattered dreams. Not for him the high post in the Navy. But not ...
- 36. Treasure
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- This book has been released under the following alternate titles:- Treasure Map 1799 The lure of gold has often brought men to the very brink of total disaster. Lieutenant George Abercrombie ...
- 37. Siege
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War,Siege of Acre)
- This book has been released under the following alternate titles:- Savage Siege 1799 The siege of Acre was a savage and desperate action where the British and the Turks fought together against ...
- 38. Prize Money
- (Matching tags: Adam Hardy,George Abercrombie Fox,French Revolutionary War)
- 1798 For a friendless, penniless lieutenant like George Abercrombie Fox, it offered the one real hope of advancement. Without a rise in rank for more years than he cared to think, the boredom ...
- 39. A Tradition of Victory
- (Matching tags: Alexander Kent,Bolitho,French Revolutionary War)
- ... weaken the French cause. The Admiralty wants an attack. Rear-admiral Richard Bolitho must follow his flag's tradition of victory - even though, for the first time in his life, he is torn between the ...
- 40. The Inshore Squadron
- (Matching tags: Alexander Kent,Bolitho,French Revolutionary War,Battle of Copenhagen)
- 1800 Copenhagen 1800. After seven years of cruel war against France, Britain's long-standing ally, Denmark, suddenly poses a threat. The scene of battle shifts abruptly from Europe to the ...
- 41. Signal Close Action
- (Matching tags: Alexander Kent,Bolitho,French Revolutionary War,Battle of the Nile)
- ... of a newly formed squadron, in a British fleet stretched to the limit, Richard Bolitho faces one of the toughest commissions of his career: to ascertain the fighting strength of the French - then seek, ...
- 42. The Flag Captain
- (Matching tags: Alexander Kent,Bolitho,French Revolutionary War)
- 1797 April 1797, Falmouth Bay. As France continues her bitter struggle for supremacy on land and sea, the Royal Navy receives a crippling blow at home: the Great Mutiny. Returning home ...
- 43. Enemy in Sight
- (Matching tags: Alexander Kent,Bolitho,French Revolutionary War)
- ... to join the blockade off the French coast. Hyperion's new crew is still little better than a rabble. But if he isto be victorious, Bolitho must test them prematurely - and risk a court-martial if he ...
- 44. Form Line of Battle
- (Matching tags: Alexander Kent,Bolitho,French Revolutionary War)
- 1793 June 1793, Gibraltar. The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. As in the past, Britain will stand or fall by the fighting power of ...
- 45. With all Despatch
- (Matching tags: Alexander Kent,Bolitho,French Revolutionary War)
- 1792 Spring 1792 - across the water revolutionary France lies like a wounded beast, threatening the fragile peace. After two years without a command, Richard Bolitho accepts the thankless ...
- 46. Touch & Go
- (Matching tags: C. Northcote Parkinson,Richard Delancey,French Revolutionary War)
- 1799- 1802 The third novel by C. Northcote Parkinson featuring Richard Delancey. In the Fireship Delancey secured an enviable commission in the Royal Navy. He is now posted to Gibraltar ...
- 47. The Fireship
- (Matching tags: C. Northcote Parkinson,Richard Delancey,French Revolutionary War,Battle of Camperdown,Spithead Nore Mutinees)
- 1797- 1798 The second novel by C. Northcote Parkinson featuring Richard Delancey. Having obtained a position on the Glatton, a converted East Indiaman with an unusually heavy and devastating ...
- 48. Devil to Pay
- (Matching tags: C. Northcote Parkinson,Richard Delancey,French Revolutionary War)
- ... a real man of the sea. By a quirk of fate Delancey is denied his wish to see action on a ship of the line, and finds himself sent on a dangerous mission to the French coast. His apparent success turns ...
- 49. The Admirals’ Game
- (Matching tags: David Donachie,John Pearce,French Revolutionary War,Siege of Toulon)
- ... successfully overcome the French at the Siege of Toulon, Pearce and his comrades, the Pelicans, now face the on-going, bloody battle to defend the port. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pearce's continuing conflict ...
- 50. A Flag of Truce
- (Matching tags: David Donachie,John Pearce,French Revolutionary War,Siege of Toulon)
- ... be put on hold as Pearce is entrusted with the task of escorting five thousand radical French sailors to a port on the Atlantic coast, where they are to be set free. But when their assignment goes awry, ...