Nelson's Sailors
Gregory Fremont-Barnes
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.
Catégories:
Volume:
100
Année:
2005
Edition:
Warrior Series #100
Editeur::
Osprey Publishing
Langue:
english
Pages:
67
ISBN 10:
1841769061
ISBN 13:
9781841769066
Collection:
Warrior
Fichier:
PDF, 13.33 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2005