Author: Sir William HothamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Concerning the writer. Early narrative. Under Hood and Nelson. The mutiny at the Nore. Camperdown and after. Life at the Cape. Portraits under George III. The days of Napoleon
Author: Sir William HothamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Concerning the writer, Eraly narrative. Under Hood and Nelson. The mutiny at the Nore. Camperdown and after. Life at the Cape. Portraits under George III. The days of Napoleon
Author: Sir William HothamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Concerning the writer. Early narrative. Under Hood and Nelson. The mutiny at the Nore. Camperdown and after. Life at the Cape. Portraits under George III. The days of Napoleon
Author: Sir William HothamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Sailor of King George
Author: Captain Frederick HoffmanPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105304914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Great Commanders
Author: Christopher Richard GabelPublisher: US Army Combined Arms Center
ISBN: 9780985587970
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
"This volume is not a study of the 'greatest' commanders; rather, it is an examination of commanders who should be considered great. The seven leaders examined, in various domains of ground, sea, and air, each in their own way successfully addressed the challenges of military endeavor in their time and changed the world in which they lived"--Foreword.
A Popular History of England
Author: Guizot (M., François)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A History of Sea Power
Author: William Oliver StevensPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A History of Sea Power" by William Oliver Stevens, Allan F. Westcott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Nelson's Surgeon
Author: Laurence BrocklissPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199287422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the lead-up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar a number of important new studies have been published about the life of Nelson and his defeat of the Combined Fleet in 1805. Despite the significant role played by the health and fitness of the British crews in securing the victory, little has been written hitherto about the naval surgeon in the era of the long war against France. This book is intended to fill the gap. Sir William Beatty (1773-1842) was surgeon of the Victory atTrafalgar. An Ulsterman from Londonderry, he had joined the navy in 1791. Before being warranted to Nelson's flagship, Beatty had served upon ten other warships, and survived a yellow fever epidemic, court martial, and shipwreck to share in the capture of a Spanish treasure ship. After Trafalgar, hebecame Physician of the Channel Fleet, based at Plymouth, and eventually Physician to Greenwich Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1838. As the book makes clear in drawing upon an extensive prosopographical database, Beatty's career until 1805 was representative of the experience of the approximately 2,000 naval surgeons who joined the navy in the course of the war.The first part of the biography provides a detailed and scholarly introduction to the professional education, training, and work of the naval surgeon. But after 1805 Beatty became a member of the service elite, and his career becomes interesting for other reasons. In the final decades of his life, Beatty was far more than a senior naval physician. As a Fellow of the Royal Society, director of the Clerical and Medical Insurance Company, and director of the London to Greenwich Railway, he wasa prominent figure in London's business and scientific community, who used his growing wealth to build a large collection of books and manuscripts. His later life is testimony to the much wider contribution that some naval and army medical officers made to the development of the new Britain of thenineteenth century. In Beatty's case, too, the contribution was original. By publishing in 1807 his carefully crafted Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, he was instrumental in forging the myth of the hero's last hours, which has become a part of the national consciousness and has helped to define for generations the concept of Britishness.
Famous Fighters of the Fleet
Author: Edward FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815
Author: Francis AbellPublisher: London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description