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On October 21, 1805, the British navy crushed the combined fleets of Spain and France near Spain's Cape Trafalgar, thwarting Napoleon Bonaparte's planned invasion of England and leading to a century of British maritime dominance. There are many books on the Battle of Trafalgar, but this one is different in that Adam Nicolson focuses more on "the mental landscape" of those who fought than on the battle itself. In analyzing why the British scored such an impressive victory, Nicolson looks beyond tactics to study the collective psychology of the three navies, along with the social and cultural forces at work. Part of the study revolves around the concept of the hero at the dawn of the 19th century. The men who fought at Trafalgar "looked on battle not as a necessary evil but as a moment of revelation and truth" that played into their conception of purpose, honor, and duty to king and country--with violence seen as an integral part of duty. No one fit the classic model of the hero more than Admiral Lord Nelson, the "most feared naval commander in the world"; a man who saw himself as a "prophetic agent of apocalypse and millennium" destined to lead England to global dominance. Nelson became the model of the British hero for the rest of the century and beyond.
In addition to an in-depth study of Nelson's background and psychology, Nicolson discusses the cultural differences between the three countries. For instance, in England, a non-aristocrat like Nelson was allowed to rise to the top--an occurrence that would have been impossible in both France and Spain given their strict societal codes. Each nation's motivation was different as well. Spain's social system was based on aristocratic chivalry, while France was acting according to the authoritative whim of Napoleon. Britain, however, was motivated by trade, and Nicolson discusses how England was able to finance its powerful navy by taxing the growing middle class and their seemingly limitless desire for material goods, making Trafalgar "the first great bourgeois victory of European history." Seize the Fire provides an intriguing perspective on one of the great naval battles in history. --Shawn Carkonen
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In Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Was the figure of Nelson -- intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous, considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those around him, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory -- an aberration in Enlightenment England? Or was the greatest of all English military heroes simply the product of his time, "the conjurer of violence" that England, at some level, deeply needed?
It is a story rich with modern resonance. This was a battle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by the emerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as "the arrogant usurper of the freedom of the seas." Seize the Fire not only vividly describes the brutal realities of battle but enters the hearts and minds of the men who were there; it is a portrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame of mind at a turning point in world history.
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The Revisionist's PC Book of Trafalgar.......2007-07-20
This is a book about the Battle of Trafalgar, not so much about what happened there but why it happened.
Much of the flavor of the book can be savored from these words in the preface: "There is a long tradition of English violence.... A higher percentage of the population died in the English Civil War than in the French Revolution.... All this was part of the nation from which Nelson came. He was able ... to summon a scale of aggression from his fleets that seems to have drawn on the deepest levels of common consciousness among his men. This is a difficult area to address, but essential: how does one read into the behaviour of a fighting fleet the deep half-conscious pre-occupations of the people who man its ship? how do the semi-understood but widely-inherited ideas about purpose, violence and victory, which are present in any evolved society, shape the way men behave in battle?"
How does one read into the behavior? Well, Adam Nicolson uses the 317 pages that follow the preface to show us how he does it. (By the way, the English Civil War was just that, a war. The French Revolution was not. Wars, in whatever country and whatever period, tend to kill a lot of people. What percentage of the French population did Napoleon's Wars kill?)
I am not sufficiently familiar with this subject to state that there is no new material in Nicolson's book. I am sufficiently familiar with this subject to state that there is no significant new material in Nicolson's book.
Nicolson has fairly evidently come to this book carrying a considerable weight in baggage. For one thing, he is no warrior and he is both uncomfortable with and unable to appreciate those who are. (Yes, there are very definitely such things as warriors. I have no qualms about admitting that I was the mildest of military rabbits during my nine years in uniform, but I certainly knew and served with men who could only be described as tigers in human form, decorated veterans and, more significantly, survivors of World War II, Korea and Vietnam.)
Nicolson is a determinist. Nelson and the English fleet won the Battle of Trafalgar because they had to. History, technology, economics, and sociology demanded that they win. Maybe. But Nicolson to the contrary, history repeatedly teaches that the battle plan is very likely to be the first casualty arising from any contact with an enemy. Nelson won a spectacular victory because he ignored the established tactical wisdom of his day by turning his fleet toward the enemy and cutting the Franco-Spanish battle line in two places. He did this because he was fighting not so much against the ships of that fleet as its commanders. He had reason to believe that if he did something tactically unsound, he could get away with it and achieve a great success. He was right.
However, victory was not inevitable. The Franco-Spanish fleet outnumbered the English fleet. The individual French ships, at least, were better built, faster and better sailors than the individual English ships (as shown by the haste with which captured French ships were refitted and brought into service with English crews.) And more important than either of those considerations is the fact that the leading squadron of the Franco-Spanish fleet--roughly a third of its total strength--was left entirely unmolested while nearly the whole of Nelson's fleet was totally committed to near-immobilized close-in action during the main battle. If Nelson had been the commander of that squadron, he'd have turned back and gone straight down the attacking line, bringing overwhelming force against one ship after another in sequence and annihilating each one in turn.
Forget about Nelson and that squadron, which failed in the event to do its duty because of the failure of its commander. Consider what would have happened at Trafalgar if Pierre-Andre de Suffren had been born in 1756 rather than 1726.
Suffren was a pre-Revolutionary French admiral. He was a person of a type encountered by the Royal Navy on only two occasions during the 18th and 19th centuries: an aggressive enemy commander. (The other time, of course, was the War of 1812, when American commanders boldly took on English ships and when the surrender of a single American frigate to FIVE English frigates was written up in official despatches as a great victory!) Suffren had led a French squadron in the Indian Ocean, far from any hope of support or succor. He consistently beat the pants off massively superior British forces.
If Suffren had been in charge at Trafalgar, he would cooly have bloodied and certainly blunted the effect of the English charge during the appallingly dangerous turn-in phase of their attack. Then he would have ordered that free squadron to bring about the destruction of the fleet from the nation of shopkeepers.
And two centuries later, Adam Nicolson would have written a book to explain why Admiral Suffren's famous victory off Cape Trafalgar had been inevitable.
In the event, Nicolson's book doesn't really tell us much about the Nelsonian navy, certainly no more than might be gleaned from the fictional adventures of Horatio Hornblower or Jack Aubrey or from the works of Captain Marryat (who had been at Trafalgar as a boy.) It tells us rather more about Adam Nicolson, who doesn't much care for the not particularly gentle men who sailed in King George's ships. He's a familiar character. Shakespeare, in fact, described him to a "T" in "King Henry IV, Part One":
Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd...
And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corpse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility....
And that it was a great pity, so it was,
That villainous saltpetre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly; and but for these vile guns
He would himself have been a soldier.
Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of... Trafalgar?.......2007-07-20
Mr. Nicolson has done a fine job of writing a book about the notions of Heroism and Duty, with even a dash of Honor thrown in. Societal woes and the blossoming of the bourgeois class are well navigated and occasionally set to a backdrop of one of, if not the greatest of Britain's (perhaps I should say England's) Naval victories. The first half of the book is a muddled read. The author alternately credits Nelson with brilliance of command with a complete denial that this particular engagement was anything more than a continuation of the changing norms of the various nations involved.
Still, a good read, but not one for insight into either Nelson or Trafalgar.
What a Disappointment.......2007-03-17
This is a five CD book. The author does not actually begin discussing the battle until well into the FOURTH CD. Need I say more?
Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar.......2007-03-09
Through the words and letters of the British, French and Spanish combatents - we can better understand the mind-set of the people involved, from the lowliest seaman to his officers and their superiors. The British coordinated by its Admiralty - the Combined Fleets officered by elitist aristocrats, answerable to orders issued by a brilliant land commander-in-chief who did not understand the sea.
This is a book that allows the reader to grasp the strategies involved, and better understand the communication gaps and the luck and guess-work involved (on both sides) resulting in the most memorable sea-battle in history.
Honour and heroism in the service of victory.......2006-08-07
Several years ago, I had the good fortune to take the guided inspection - available to any tourist with the requisite admission fee - of Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, now permanently moored at the Portsmouth (UK) Naval Yard. The experience left a lasting impression, perhaps partly due to the excellence of the guide, a salty, retired Royal Marine. (A subsequent tour of the USS Constitution, moored near Boston and conducted by a young, female petty officer, paled woefully in comparison.)
If, in Adam Nicolson's SEIZE THE FIRE: HEROISM, DUTY, AND THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, you expect a rousing narrative that'll leave you - assuming you're an Anglophile - singing "Rule Britannia", you'll be disappointed. Rather, what the author gives us is an erudite, scholarly, well-researched, and relatively dispassionate narrative account of the great naval battle off the coast of Spain on October 21, 1805 in which the British Fleet virtually annihilated the Combined Fleet of France and Spain. As everyone knows, Nelson was mortally wounded as he strode his quarterdeck; his death nearly three hours later vaulted him to the head of the queue of England's all-time heroes. In great part, and as the subtitle of the book implies, SEIZE THE FIRE is an examination of what it was about the contemporary English psyche and its perceptions of "duty" and "heroism" that ensured the victory. Indeed, as Nilcolson has it, the outcome of the contest was preordained even before the two sides collided because of the Spanish fleet's medieval command structure and the demoralization within the French fleet brought about by the officer purges of the French Revolution (much as the Soviet Army suffered from Stalin's purges of the 1930s). Love (of its commander), honour, a ferocious and zealous aggression, and skill won the day for the Royal Navy, not tactics.
Nicolson's first five chapters (entitled: "Zeal", "Order and Anxiety", "Honour", "Love", "Boldness"), which deal with the England's national character and that of its naval officers, are cleverly headed with the time of day on that October 21st and the distance between the two fleets as they closed with each other at a walking pace. Thus, it's: 5:50 - 8:30 AM, 10 - 6.5 miles; 8:30 - 9:30 AM, 6.5 - 5.9 miles; 9:30 - 11:30 AM, 5.9 - 2 miles; 11:30 AM - 12 noon, 2 - 1 miles; 12 noon - 12:30 PM, 1 mile - contact. This effectively builds suspense. The last three chapters ("Violence", "Humanity", "Nobility") describe the battle itself, Nelson's death, and the shortly subsequent great storm at sea that beset both victor and vanquished.
There's a commendable color section of paintings and portraits of the battle and the top commanders, as well as several diagrams showing the various ships' positions at progressive stages of the cataclysm. During the battle sequence itself, the focus is initially on the first English vessel to make contact with the enemy's line of ships, the HMS Royal Sovereign commanded by Admiral Lord Collingwood, Nelson's number two, and then switches to the HMS Victory. The point of reference throughout is, understandably, pretty much the latter, though the actions of many of the English ships are touched upon.
The relatively subdued tone of the narrative is given considerable power by the descriptions - perhaps some of the best I've ever read about naval warfare of that period - of the awful carnage. After the French flagship Bucentaure capitulated, boarding British officers found:
"Within the remains of (the) ship, the dead were no longer recognizable but lay along the middle of each deck in rough piles of blood and guts through which the roundshot and the splinters had ploughed again and again."
It was Nelson, who understood and personified the English concepts of honour and heroism as perceived by his island nation at this point in its history, that engineered the Trafalgar triumph by harnessing the combative potential of his captains and funneling it into the violence and independent action which they, more than their French and Spanish counterparts, were capable of at this time and place. Yet, after Nelson's death, we hear nothing more of him from Nicolson other than that his corpse was conveyed back to England in a massive water cask filled with drinking spirits. There should have been some sort of epilogue - closure to the story - encompassing the Admiral's funeral (from which the love of his life, Lady Hamilton, was apparently excluded). But there wasn't, and I'm knocking off a star.
In conclusion, the author writes:
"... the uncompromising violence; the dedicated grip on the need for 'annihilation'; the seeking of victory through exsanguination; combined with a hunger for honour; a belief in the reality of noble ideas; self-possession as a mark of nobility; and behind all that a tender and active humanity ... these are the ambivalent ingredients of sublime and noble war, of a kind which Homer and Virgil would have recognized, and all of which were undeniably there on 21 October 1805."
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In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Adam Nicolson's Seize the Fire is not only a close and revealing portrait of a legendary hero in his final action but also a vivid account of the brutal realities of battle; it asks the questions: Why did the winners win? What was it about the British, their commanders and their men, their beliefs and their ambitions, that took them to such overwhelming victory?
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Seize the Fire, Adam Nicolson, author of the widely acclaimed
God's Secretaries, takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic. Is violence a necessary aspect of the hero? And daring? Why did the cult of the hero flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a way it hadn't for two hundred years? Was the figure of Nelson -- intemperate, charming, theatrical, anxious, impetuous, considerate, indifferent to death and danger, inspirational to those around him, and, above all, fixed on attack and victory -- an aberration in Enlightenment England? Or was the greatest of all English military heroes simply the product of his time, ""the conjurer of violence"" that England, at some level, deeply needed?
It is a story rich with modern resonance. This was a battle fought for the control of a global commercial empire. It was won by the emerging British world power, which was widely condemned on the continent of Europe as ""the arrogant usurper of the freedom of the seas."" Seize the Fire not only vividly describes the brutal realities of battle but enters the hearts and minds of the men who were there; it is a portrait of a moment, a close and passionately engaged depiction of a frame of mind at a turning point in world history.
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Seize the Fire.......2007-02-23
Seize this book! It is fascinating and so well written. It is not just a description of the battle. The reader learns so much about the history and culture of England, France and Spain and also about the psychology of men who go to battle. Nicolson is an excellent writer!
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