Author: Edward OslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
Author: Edward OslerThe Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
Author: Edward OslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algeria
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth ... A New and Revised Edition. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.]
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Author: Edward OSLERThe Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
Author: Edward OslerPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The following is a biography of Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth. He was a British naval officer who fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. In 1770, he entered the Royal Navy on board HMS Juno with Captain John Stott, and made a voyage to the Falkland Islands. In 1772, he followed Stott to the Alarm, and in her was in the Mediterranean for three years. In consequence of a high-spirited quarrel with his captain, he was put on shore at Marseilles where he found an old friend of his father's in command of a merchant ship. He was able to get a passage to Lisbon and so home.
The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
Author: Edward OslerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368891049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain
Author: Stephen TaylorPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
"Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." —Jan Morris, The Guardian Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. Yet he had a gift for antagonizing his better-born peers, and he made powerful enemies. Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves. Opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and Pellew himself, leading from the front in the style of his contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive. Pellew’s humanity, fondness for subordinates, and blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his letters, make him a hugely engaging figure. Stephen Taylor gives him at last the biography he deserves.
The Historians' History of the World
Author: The Historians' History of the World
Author: Henry Smith WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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The Felonry of New South Wales
Author: James MudiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany Bay (Australia)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Historians' History of the World: Scotland, Ireland, England since 1792
Author: Henry Smith WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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