Eastern England under threat from Revolutionary France

A large and detailed French chart of the North Sea, showing the British Coast from Dartmouth to Caithness and the Orkneys and Shetland Islands, and the continental coastline from Abbeville east to Denmarkand the Kattegat, and Norway from Oslo (Christiana) to Bergen. At the time of publication Britain was facing France in the War of the First Coalition. The French alliance with Spain made an invasion of England more likely, but was prevented by John Jervis's victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of St Vincent. 1797 also saw the two naval mutinies at Spithead and the Nore. Such was the danger of invasion that only the ringleaders of the Nore muntiny were dealt with harshly: most of the sailors went unpunished and continued serving in the navy.