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Nelson's Sailors

By Gregory Fremont-Barnes

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Nelson's Sailors

By Gregory Fremont-Barnes

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Drawing on many contemporary sources and eyewitness accounts, this book examines the lives of the ordinary sailors of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), detailing their attitudes, duties, comforts, hardships, vices and virtues. The popular image of the British sailor of this time is of a press-ganged wretch living off weevil-infested food, motivated only by prize money and facing constant hazards aboard a floating hell, where discipline was maintained by the lash. The extent to which this enduring image accords with reality is revealed here.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
64
Release Date:
2005-08-10
Publication Date:
2005-08-10
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1841769061
ISBN13:
9781841769066
Weight:
222 g
Height:
183 cm
Width:
245 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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