The Glorious First of June 1794

Michael Duffy is Head of History and Director of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at the University of Exeter and General Editor of Exeter Maritime Studies. He is the author of The Younger Pitt (Longman, 2000), and editor of Parameters of British Naval Power 1650-1850 (UEP, 1992) and The New Maritime History of Devon (Conway Maritime, 1992). Roger Morriss was a Curator at the National Maritime Museum, London until 1995. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Exeter Centre for Maritime Studies, and in the History Department, University College London.

This book is the result of a conference devoted to one naval battle, and it is a model of its kind. The editors are of course old hands at this sort of thing. Michael Duffy, who as editor of the Mariners Mirror became friend and confidant to so many naval and maritime historians, was the editor of the proceedings from another ground breaking conference. Parameters of British Naval Power, 1650-1850 Roger Morriss, one of those productive naval and military historians - a veritable North Atlantic triangle of scholarship - from Ian R. Christie's graduate seminar in the 1960s at King's College, London, is one of the foremost authorities on the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Both these fine historians teach at that relatively new and highly successful centre of naval history, Exeter University, in Devon, England ... This is a thoroughly good read. The Northern Mariner Those who... value a contextual placing of naval history within British and French culture will be stimulated by the authorial range and newly transcribed primary sources in this book. The quality of scholarship and design justify its relatively high price. The Age of Sail Vol.1 2002-3

• List of Illustrations1 Introduction: The Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794 MICHAEL DUFFY AND ROGER MORRISS2 The Prairial Battles: The French Viewpoint ANDRE DELAPORTE3 The Glorious First of June: The British Strategic Perspective CHRISTOPHER WAREDocument;3.i. The Admiralty's Instructions to Earl Howe, 17 April 17944 The Glorious First of June: The British View of the Actions of 28, 29 May and 1 June 1794 ROGER MORRISSDocuments4.i. Nicholas Pocock's Notebook4.ii. Letter from Jonathan Wilkinson to John Clark, 2 July 17944.iii. Letter from William Parker to his Father, 17 June 17944.iv. Letter from Rowland Bevan to T. Morgan4.v. Report of Captain George Cranfield Berkeley and Lieutenant Jonathan Monkton to Admiral Earl Howe, 6 June 17945 The Man who Missed the Grain Convoy: Rear Admiral George Montagu and the Arrival of Vanstabel's Convoy from America in 1794 MICHAEL DUFFY6 The Convoy, the Grain and their Influence on the French Revolution LAWRENCE EVANS7 The Glorious First of June: A Battle of Art and Theatre PIETER VAN DER MERWE8 The Battle Sanctified: Some Memorials and Relics BARBARA TOMLINSONList of ContributorsIndex