Trading in WarA vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britains military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers,