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A War Betwixt Englishmen
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Author : Brian Vale
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2000
A War Betwixt Englishmen written by Brian Vale and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"Vale also explores the stories of the men who fought the war, notably James Norton, for Brazil, and William Brown, for Argentina - as Ambassador Robert Gordon complained in 1827, this was essentially 'a war betwixt Englishmen'. In the Brazilian Navy, one third of the officers and men were Britons; on the Argentinian side, the proportion was greater and their numbers were augmented by republican North Americans. Vale charts their audacious deeds during the war and their careers in the political turmoil that followed."--BOOK JACKET.
A War Betwixt Englishmen
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Author : Brian Vale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
A War Betwixt Englishmen written by Brian Vale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Argentina categories.
A War Betwixt Englishmen
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Author : Brian Vale
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2000
A War Betwixt Englishmen written by Brian Vale and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"Vale also explores the stories of the men who fought the war, notably James Norton, for Brazil, and William Brown, for Argentina - as Ambassador Robert Gordon complained in 1827, this was essentially 'a war betwixt Englishmen'. In the Brazilian Navy, one third of the officers and men were Britons; on the Argentinian side, the proportion was greater and their numbers were augmented by republican North Americans. Vale charts their audacious deeds during the war and their careers in the political turmoil that followed."--BOOK JACKET.
Navies In Modern World History
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Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2004-05-04
Navies In Modern World History written by Lawrence Sondhaus and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-04 with History categories.
Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the dawn of the twenty-first century and beyond. In a series of case studies Lawrence Sondhaus examines the national fleets of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Chile and the Soviet Union, and demonstrates the variety of ways in which each country has made decisive use of naval power. In each case the author argues that the navy in question helped change the course of modern world history; he also systematically analyses the challenges navies faced in assembling matériel, training personnel and performing their mission. This book discusses the leading role of navies and shipbuilders in key technological innovations of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including advances in steam power, armor, artillery and torpedoes, and looks at aircraft carrier design and naval aviation in general in the second half of the twentieth century. It also explains how, today, technological breakthroughs are centered around naval stealth and maritime propulsion systems. Special attention is devoted to the evolving state of naval technology, and the book shows how the relative industrial capabilities of seafaring countries have been reflected in their maritime building programs, providing an important link between the evolution of modern national fleets and the broader history of the period.
A Frigate Of King George
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Author : Brian Vale
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2001-06-29
A Frigate Of King George written by Brian Vale and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-29 with History categories.
This book describes what life was really like on a wooden warship. The author examines recruitment, desertions, food, drink, disease, and death. He details operations in Brazil, Chile, and Peru from a military and a political angle, as well as from the perspective of ordinary seamen.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Author : Joseph Gibbs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2007
Dead Men Tell No Tales written by Joseph Gibbs and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of confessions. Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered with the romanticized mythology that informs pirate lore to this day. Joseph Gibbs takes up the task of separating fact from fiction to explicate the true story of Charles Gibbs - an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport, Rhode Island - in an investigation that reveals a life as riveting as the legend it replaces.Jeffers was the child of a Revolutionary War privateer captain with his own history in the rough work. After a heroic career in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, Jeffers eschewed military life and took to the privateer trade himself. As Charles Gibbs, pirate, he sailed from the ports of Charleston and New Orleans to wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Stripping away 170 years of embellishment, Joseph Gibbs maps the still-shockingly violent career of Charles Gibbs across the seas and, in the process, challenges and discredits much of his self-made mythology.Gibbs recounts Jeffers' well-documented role in the infamous mutiny and murders in 1830 aboard the brig Vineyard while the vessel was carrying a load of Mexican silver. The pirate was captured the following year and brought to New York. The case against Jeffers and accomplice Thomas Wansley culminated in a sensational trial, which led to their subsequent executions by hanging on Ellis Island.In addition to recounting the exploits of a ruthless cutthroat, The Confessions of Charles Gibbs tells the larger story of American piracy and privateering in the early nineteenth century and illustrates the role of American and European adventurers in the Latin American wars of liberation. Carefully researched, engagingly written, and enhanced by twenty illustrations, this is pirate history at its most credible and readable.
War In An Age Of Revolution 1775 1815
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Author : Roger Chickering
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-08
War In An Age Of Revolution 1775 1815 written by Roger Chickering and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-08 with History categories.
The essays in this volume examine the historical place of revolutionary warfare on both sides of the Atlantic, focusing on the degree to which they extended practices common in the eighteenth century or introduced fundamentally new forms of warfare.
War Betwixt The Two British Kingdoms Consider D
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1705
War Betwixt The Two British Kingdoms Consider D written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1705 with categories.
Cochrane In The Pacific
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Author : Brian Vale
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2007-10-24
Cochrane In The Pacific written by Brian Vale and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-24 with History categories.
In 1818, the revolutionary government of Chile was poised to attack Peru, the last bastion of Spanish power on the continent. The new ruler, the half-Irish Bernardo O'Higgins, threw his energies into creating a navy. Short of local naval manpower, the Chileans looked to Britain and the United States for the sailors needed to man and command their squadrons, many of them unemployed veterans of the Royal Navy. And, to be the new navy's commander-in-chief, they recruited one of the most fearless and controversial officers of the age: Thomas, Lord Cochrane. The story of the naval war in the Pacific is an exciting one. Under Cochrane's audacious leadership, coasts were blockaded, fortresses stormed and ships seized in bloody hand-to-hand fighting. The result was that Chile and Peru gained their freedom from Spain, while Cochrane enhanced his reputation and made a fortune in pay and prize money. For one hundred and fifty years, the accepted story of the war has been based on Cochrane's own version of events. But how accurate is Cochrane's account? To find out, Brian Vale goes back to the original documents, despatches, diaries and newspapers. The result is a new and vivid account of the war in the Pacific and a reassessment of one of Britain's legendary naval heroes seen at the peak of his career.
The Milne Papers
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Author : John Beeler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-25
The Milne Papers written by John Beeler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-25 with History categories.
Alexander Milne was the pre-eminent naval administrator of the Victorian Royal Navy, spending eighteen years at the Admiralty between 1847 and 1876, over six of them as First Naval Lord. His administrative career coincided exactly with the greatest technological upheaval in warfare at sea since sails supplanted oars, and he played an important role in almost every step of the Navy's transformation from sail to steam, wood to iron, and in the equally critical processes of devising a modern system of recruiting and training enlisted personnel, and evolving a coherent strategy suitable for a steam-powered fleet. This collection is drawn from a rich documentary record of Milne's and the Board's labours during the late 1840s and 1850s. It also encompasses Milne's earlier sea service, furnishing a unique glimpse of the maritime policing operations of the Navy during the Pax Britannica.