Download Full eBooks in PDF
A Narrative Of My Professional Adventures 1790 1839 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of A Narrative Of My Professional Adventures 1790 1839 book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : William Henry Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464483266
Author : William Henry Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:184818754
Author : William Henry Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015037388389
Author : Sir William Henry Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Admirals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027825566
Author : Michael A. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911423223
Sir William Henry Dillon (1780-1857) was born in Birmingham, the illegitimate son of the distinguished writer and traveller John Talbot Dillon (1734-1806), a baron of the Holy Roman Empire. The elder Dillon had briefly served in the Royal Navy, apparently obtaining his discharge in a fit of pique after being ejected, when a midshipman, from the Parade Coffee House in Portsmouth, a hostelry reserved for captains. Sir William''s long, enjoyable, and informative memoirs, edited by Professor Michael A Lewis, one of the doyens of naval historians, are arguably the best by any naval officer of the period, and for anyone seeking an intimate glimpse into the workings of the Georgian navy and the professional concerns and vexations of its officer corps they are essential reading. The narrative, never dull, is enhanced by the editor''s erudite and, where appropriate, witty commentaries, by the sense we derive of the author''s personal foibles and by his numerous exasperated references to ''Mrs V'' (Matilda Voller), a middle-aged widow who ensnared Dillon into marriage when he was a young lieutenant recently returned from incarceration in France. Other illuminative Georgian memoirs in the NRS series of publications are those of Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin (vols 12, 19, 24), Captain John Harvey Boteler (vol 82), and Commander James Anthony Gardner (vol 31), Gardner''s being, like Dillon''s, especially vivid. In 1803, when a senior lieutenant carrying a flag of truce to the Dutch, he was arrested, handed over to the French, and held captive until 1807. On his release he was given command of the decrepit old sloop Childers, with sixty-five men and carrying only fourteen 12-pounder carronades. On 14 March 1808, off the Norwegian coast, she defeated, after a lengthy action, a Danish brig of twenty guns and a crew of 160. A fortnight later Dillon, honoured with a valuable presentation sword by the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd''s, was posted captain: his delight and relief as he read over and over again the letter informing him that he had finally achieved that key step in any Georgian sea officer''s career provides memorable reading. Subsequently, as a post-captain, he served at Walcheren, and in varied locations, including Newfoundland and the Far East. From 1835 (the year he was knighted as KCH) until 1838 he commanded the 74-gun Russell in the Mediterranean. He became equerry to the Duke of Sussex, and attained flag rank in 1846, dying in Monte Carlo in 1857 as a vice-admiral of the red. V'' (Matilda Voller), a middle-aged widow who ensnared Dillon into marriage when he was a young lieutenant recently returned from incarceration in France. Other illuminative Georgian memoirs in the NRS series of publications are those of Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin (vols 12, 19, 24), Captain John Harvey Boteler (vol 82), and Commander James Anthony Gardner (vol 31), Gardner''s being, like Dillon''s, especially vivid. In 1803, when a senior lieutenant carrying a flag of truce to the Dutch, he was arrested, handed over to the French, and held captive until 1807. On his release he was given command of the decrepit old sloop Childers, with sixty-five men and carrying only fourteen 12-pounder carronades. On 14 March 1808, off the Norwegian coast, she defeated, after a lengthy action, a Danish brig of twenty guns and a crew of 160. A fortnight later Dillon, honoured with a valuable presentation sword by the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd''s, was posted captain: his delight and relief as he read over and over again the letter informing him that he had finally achieved that key step in any Georgian sea officer''s career provides memorable reading. Subsequently, as a post-captain, he served at Walcheren, and in varied locations, including Newfoundland and the Far East. From 1835 (the year he was knighted as KCH) until 1838 he commanded the 74-gun Russell in the Mediterranean. He became equerry to the Duke of Sussex, and attained flag rank in 1846, dying in Monte Carlo in 1857 as a vice-admiral of the red. f as he read over and over again the letter informing him that he had finally achieved that key step in any Georgian sea officer''s career provides memorable reading. Subsequently, as a post-captain, he served at Walcheren, and in varied locations, including Newfoundland and the Far East. From 1835 (the year he was knighted as KCH) until 1838 he commanded the 74-gun Russell in the Mediterranean. He became equerry to the Duke of Sussex, and attained flag rank in 1846, dying in Monte Carlo in 1857 as a vice-admiral of the red.
Author : Sir William Henry Dillon,William Henry Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Admirals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038348426
Author : William Henry Dillon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015037388371
Author : James Davey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300217322
Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: An “impressive” account of how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon’s ultimate defeat (International Journal of Military History). Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy’s task, the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade, ceasing only with Napoleon’s final surrender. In this dramatic account of naval contributions between 1803 and 1815, James Davey offers original and exciting insights into the Napoleonic wars and Britain’s maritime history. Encompassing Trafalgar, the Peninsular War, the War of 1812, the final campaign against Napoleon, and many lesser known but likewise crucial moments, the book sheds light on the experiences of individuals high and low, from admiral and captain to sailor and cabin boy. The cast of characters also includes others from across Britain—dockyard workers, politicians, civilians—who made fundamental contributions to the war effort, and in so doing, both saved the nation and shaped Britain’s history.
Author : Roland Pietsch
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781848320369
Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian navy, not of the upper-class children training to become officers, but of the orphaned, delinquent or just plain adventurous youths whose prospects on land were bleak and miserable. Many had no adult at all taking care of them; others were failed apprentices; many were troublesome youths for whom communities could not provide so that the Navy represented a form of floating workhouse. Some, with restless and roving minds, like Defoes Robinson Crusoe, saw deep sea life as one of adventure, interspersed with raucous periods ashore drinking, singing and womanizing. The author explains how they were recruited; describes the distinctive subculture of the young sailor the dress, hair, tattoos and language and their life and training as servants of captains and officers. More than 5,000 boys were recruited during the Seven Years War alone and without them the Royal Navy could not have fought its wars. This is a fascinating tribute to a forgotten band of sailors.
Author : Ann Heilmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319713861
Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after his death in 1865 became the object of intense speculation when rumours arose about his sex. This cultural history of Barry’s afterlives in Victorian to contemporary (neo-Victorian) life-writing (‘biographilia’) examines the textual and performative strategies of biography, biofiction and biodrama of the last one and a half centuries. In exploring the varied reconstructions and re-imaginations of the historical personality across time, the book illustrates (not least with its cover image) that the ‘real’ James Barry does not exist, any more than does the ‘faithful’ biographical, biofictional or biodramatic rendering of a life in a generically ‘stable’ and discrete form. What Barry represents and how he is represented invariably pinpoints the imaginative, the speculative and the performative: reflections and refractions in the looking glass of genre. Just as ‘James Miranda Barry’, as a subject of cultural inquiry, comes into being and remains in view in the act of crossing gender, so neo-Victorian life-writing constitutes itself through similar acts of boundary transgression. Transgender thus finds its most typical expression in transgenre.
Author : Peter Warwick
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446355251
A history of 1805’s Battle of Trafalgar between the British Royal Navy and the joint forces of the French and Spanish navies. Tales from the Front Line: Trafalgar offers a unique insight into the most significant naval battle in history, told through the accounts of those who were actually there. Here you will find original accounts from the great military leaders of the time—including Horatio Nelson and Napoleon—as well as the experiences of the ordinary seamen and civilian witnesses. This title is drawn from a variety of contemporary sources including letters, diaries, newspapers and ships’ logs. Praise for Tales from the Front Line: Trafalgar “For contemporary accounts, you cannot do better . . . Based almost entirely on the testimony of survivors from both sides, the book superbly recreates the hell of 19th Century naval warfare.” —The Mail on Sunday (UK)
Author : Roy Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440627293
An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.
Author : Harriet Guest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521881944
An original and richly illustrated study of the pictorial and written representations of Cook's voyages.
Author : Denver Alexander Brunsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813933511
A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Author : Hilary L Rubinstein
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526765024
In one of the most sensational and perplexing incidents in naval history, Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, a much-voyaged veteran and outstanding officer, drowned along with more than 800 crew and many civilian visitors, male and female, on a calm summer’s morning and in a familiar anchorage. This new work examines that tragedy – the sudden capsizing at Spithead on 29 August 1782 of the mighty flagship HMS Royal George. This is the first comprehensive account of the calamity and is based on a wide variety of contemporary sources, including reports by survivors and eyewitnesses. It discusses such issues as how and why she sank; on whom, if anyone, the blame should fall; the number and nature of the casualties; and the disaster's impact on the nation's psyche, including its treatment in literature. In its pages are encountered, by name and fate, some of the hitherto anonymous seamen who were on the ship and who lived to become the last remaining survivors; these included the only woman to be picked up alive, out of perhaps 300 who were on board. As well as describing the sinking, the book provides information never before uncovered on the life and career of Kempenfelt, whose flagship Royal George was, ranging from his hitherto unknown maternal ancestry (through which it is shown that he was related to his great contemporary, Admiral Rodney) to accounts of his whereabouts when the ship sank. These call into question the now-set-in-stone scenario in William Cowper's famous poem, which depicts Kempenfelt writing in his cabin when she foundered. Although the Royal George has receded from national memory in recent years, the tragedy was for a long time front and centre in representations of British naval culture, and this absorbing account – part detective story, part historical narrative – will bring to a new audience an extraordinary tale from the heyday of Britain’s naval power.
