Author: Alexander Meyrick BroadleyPublisher: London,J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : HARDY, SIR THOMAS MASTERMAN, BART.,1769-1839
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Nelson's Hardy
Author: Alexander Meyrick BroadleyPublisher: London,J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : HARDY, SIR THOMAS MASTERMAN, BART.,1769-1839
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Nelson's Hardy and His Wife
Author: John GoreNelson's Band of Brothers
Author: Captain Peter HorePublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848323565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
While there is a perennial interest in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars and in Nelson himself, there is no reference work that chronicles all the captains of his ships, their social origins, their characters and the achievements in their lives beyond their service under Nelson. This new book, researched and written by distinguished historians, descendants of some of Nelson's officers, and members of the 1805 Club, presents concise biographies of those officers who fought with Nelson in his three great battles, with superb colour illustration throughout. Nelson first gave the name of 'band of brothers' to the officers who had commanded ships of his fleet at the battle of the Nile (1798). This new volume will include 100 officers, ranging from lieutenants in command of gunboats at the battle of Copenhagen (1801) through captains of line-of- battle ships at the Nile and at Trafalgar (1805), to admirals in command of squadrons in his fleets. Of real significance are the specially commissioned photographs of all the monuments and memorials to Nelson's captains, descriptions with transcriptions of epitaphs, and clear directions to enable the readers to find them. Part travel book, part biography and moving testimony to Nelson's faithful captains, Nelson's band of Brothers presents the opportunity to rediscover 100 local heroes.
Authentic narrative of the death of lord Nelson
Author: sir William BeattyNelson'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.
Nelson
Author: Edgar VincentPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300097972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
An account of the British naval commander's life and career explores his leadership style, his victory against the Spanish fleet at Cape St. Vincent, and his relationships with women and family members.
Nelson; the Public and Private Life of Horatio, Viscount Nelson
Author: George Lathom BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Champions of the Fleet
Author: Edward FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Nelson and His Captains
Author: William Henry FitchettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, with Notes
Author: Nicholas Harris NicolasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description