Author: Alexander John ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Recollections of the Life of the Rev A.J. Scott
Author: Alexander John ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B., Duke of Bronté, Etc., Etc., Etc
Author: Thomas Joseph PettigrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
Author: Thomas Joseph PettigrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Vice-admiral Lord Viscount Nelson by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
Author: The Monthly Review
Author: Horatio Nelson and the Naval Supremacy of England
Author: William Clark RussellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Beloved Emma
Author: Flora FraserPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832569
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
'Bewitchingly readable, authoritative' The Times 'At last, in Flora Fraser, Lady Hamilton has a biographer able to capture both the woman and her times' Amanda Foreman Born in the eighteenth century, Emma Hamilton was a woman ahead of her time. Her rise to fame and fortune seemed unstoppable – until she began her infamous love affair with Admiral Lord Nelson. Beloved Emma follows Emma Hamilton's journey from Liverpool to London and her life as an artist's assistant, through glittering successes as the wife of Sir William Hamilton in Naples, and that notorious romance with Nelson, to her painful descent from the heights of fame to an early death in Calais. Flora Fraser captures the energy, purpose and sexuality that drove this extraordinary woman through her tumultuous life.
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: The Black Ship
Author: Dudley PopePublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844158934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Dudley Pope meticulously researches the story of the bloodiest mutiny in the history of the Royal Navy - the butchering of the officers aboard His Majesty's Frigate HERMIONE 32 guns, in the West Indies in 1797. The captain of the frigate, Hugh Pigot, was a brutal and sadistic commander who flogged his men mercilessly and drove them beyond the limits of endurance. However, nothing could excuse the slaughter of guilty and innocent officers alike as the mutineers went wild and committed crimes beyond anything Pigot could have dreamt up. Not content with that, they then took the ship into an enemy port and gave her up to the Spanish who, unaware of the true facts for some time, nevertheless greeted them with the contempt they deserved. The Spanish took the ship into their service but due to an amazing episode of red tape and internal wrangling, never actually got the frigate to sea. Meanwhile the Royal Navy relentlessly hunted down the mutineers over the next ten years and of the 33 either caught or who gave themselves up, 24 were either hanged and hung in chains upon gibbets, or transported for life. A number managed to escape justice. The author describes these events which end with the daring re-capture of the HERMIONE under the guns of Spanish forts, with Captain Edward Hamilton leading 100 English sailors in six open boats in one of the most brilliant cutting-out expeditions in naval history.
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.