Nelson's Sailors by Fremont-Barnes, Gregory

Nelson's Sailors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841769066)

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Format: Paperback
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Nelson's Sailors by Fremont-Barnes, Gregory

Nelson's Sailors

$21.00
Nelson's Sailors by Fremont-Barnes, Gregory

Nelson's Sailors

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
ISBN-10: 1841769061
ISBN-13: 9781841769066
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2005
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.76h x 7.36w x 0.20d
By Gregory Fremont-Barnes
By Gregory Fremont-Barnes
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Gregory Fremont-Barnes holds a doctorate in Modern History from Oxford University. He is the author of The French Revolutionary Wars, The Peninsular War, The Fall of the French Empire, 1813-1815 and The Boer War, 1899-1902. He is currently editing a four-volume Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and co-editing a five-volume Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War.

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