Featured battle : Valvassone

Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Date : 16 March 1797

A rearguard action by the Austrians retreating from Italy after Mantua. Attempting to hold up the French while other units crossed the Tagliamento river. Although massively outnumbered the Austrians managed to extract most of their troops and lost only six guns in the process.

Ships of the Royal Navy

J J Colledge, Ben Warlow & Steve Bush
Revised and updated this is the fifth edition of this superb work of reference. The names and significant information about every Royal Navy ship from the Fifteenth century up until those under construction today. There is sufficient introductory information to allow the reader to understand the necessarily abbreviated text. Even so this is a large book of nearly 500 pages with a rough estimate of 15,000 ships names. Also included are the Royal Australian, Canadian and New Zealand navies. As an aside even some people who are just curious about names can find that there are nine ships which have been called Magpie, nine called Penguin and thirty-one called Sparrow.
This is a must have book for anyone with an interest in the Royal Navy.
Very highly recommended.

Seaforth Publishing, 2020