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The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's navy and France. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India-and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. In bringing home Bengali saltpeter for the Peninsular campaign with military and civilian passengers, Britain lost fourteen of her great Indiamen, either sunk or taken by enemy frigates. Many hundreds of lives were lost, and the East India Company was shaken to its foundations. The focus of these disasters, military and meteorological, was a tiny French outpost in mid-ocean-the island known as Mauritius. This is the story of that season. It brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women, and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to take up the battle to drive the French from the Eastern seas. Mauritius must be taken at any cost.
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"For sheer excitement, what most gripped me was Storm and Conquest ... as thrilling as anything by Patrick O'Brian." -- Jeremy Paxman, Books of the Year, Observer
"Taylor has written a ferociously good book ... an incredible tale." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
"A magnificent book ... The writing has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brian novel." -- Literary Review
"A triumph... a ripping yarn founded on original research ... popular maritime history at its very best." -- Huw Bowen, Guardian
"Taylor is a great man for storms and desperate enterprises ... in this irresistible volume he demonstrates his steady scholarship too."
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A magnificent book ... has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brien novel. -- Literary Review
A stunning hodge-podge of conflicts, character studies, adventures and dubious goingson in the East ... irrisistible.
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A triumph, a brilliant evocation ... this is the richest of works: a ripping yarn founded on original research. -- Guardian
An admirably well-researched and well-written account ... Taylor tells this remarkable tale with [] infectious zeal.
-- Daily Telegraph
For sheer excitement, what gripped me most is Storm and Conquest ... as thrilling as anything by Patrick O'Brien. -- Jeremy Paxman, Books of the Year, Observer
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"Taylor has written a ferociously good book ... an incredible tale." -- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm
"A magnificent book ... The writing has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brian novel." -- Literary Review
"A triumph... a ripping yarn founded on original research ... popular maritime history at its very best." -- Huw Bowen, Guardian
"Taylor is a great man for storms and desperate enterprises ... in this irresistible volume he demonstrates his steady scholarship too."
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A magnificent book ... has all the nautical salt and pungency of a Patrick O'Brien novel. -- Literary Review
A stunning hodge-podge of conflicts, character studies, adventures and dubious goingson in the East ... irrisistible.
-- Jan Morris, The Times
A triumph, a brilliant evocation ... this is the richest of works: a ripping yarn founded on original research. -- Guardian
An admirably well-researched and well-written account ... Taylor tells this remarkable tale with [] infectious zeal.
-- Daily Telegraph
For sheer excitement, what gripped me most is Storm and Conquest ... as thrilling as anything by Patrick O'Brien. -- Jeremy Paxman, Books of the Year, Observer
Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 by Stephen Taylor is a gripping and epic account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius in which the British fleet sailed close to catastrophe in French waters.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0393060470
- ISBN 13 9780393060478
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