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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Maps
Prologue: Wellington at Waterloo
Introduction: Ordering and Offshore Balancing: Britain, Europe and Global Power
Part I. Shaping Security
1. Sea Power, Strategy and the Scheldt: Shaping British Policy
2. Culture, Ideas and Cash: Shaping Post-War Agendas
3. Lord Liverpool and European Order, 1812–27
Part II. Solving Problems
4. The ‘Wellington System’ and National Strategy, 1814–52
5. Steam Warfare
6. Engineering Security: Harbours, Canals, Roads and Railways
7. Neutralising the Scheldt: Belgian Independence, Antwerp and the ‘Offshore Balance’
Part III. French Policy
8. France and the Impact of Relative Decline
9. Cherbourg, 1815–58: Changing Geography
10. Identifying the French Threat, 1815–56
11. Fading Glory: Post-Napoleonic France and the Art of War
Part IV. Resolution
12. The Denouement: Cherbourg, 1858
13. Military Manpower: Invasion Scares, Expeditionary Forces and the Militia
14. Commanding the Sea and Creating Strategy: The Royal Navy, 1815–70
15. Antwerp and the Scheldt from 1870 to 1914
Conclusion
Appendix I. Lessons of the Long War
Appendix II. The Principles of British Strategy
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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