Download or read book Arming the Royal Navy, 1793–1815 written by Gareth Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of Ordnance has been ill-served by previous accounts of its role in arming the Royal Navy during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Cole offers an in-depth examination of its organizational structure and demonstrates how the department responded to the pressures of war over an extended period of time.