Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst Family archives.This biography also throws fresh light on other leading figures of the period notably The Duke of Wellington and The Prince Regent.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

The story of how Nathan Mayer Rothschild financed Wellington's victory over Napoleon at Waterloo.

Explores foreign seamen's employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of 'foreignness' itself.