Admiral Collingwood

Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784081935

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Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero by Max Adams Pdf

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend – and rival in love – Nelson. He was also an accomplished writer and wit, a doting father, inveterate gossip and consummate diplomat and strategist. Collingwood's service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he began as a young midshipman and ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean. ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD is an intimate portrait of a forgotten British naval hero and a thrilling portrait of the glory years of the age of sail.

Author : William Clark Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Admirals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039326868

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The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood by William Clark Russell Pdf

Author : Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Admirals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081150484

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A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed with Memoirs of His Life by Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood Pdf

Author : Lord Collingwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Admirals
ISBN : BNC:1001935625

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A Selection from the Public and Privat Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood Inter-sperred with Memoirs of His Life by Lord Collingwood Pdf

Author : Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood,George Lewis Newnham Collingwood
Publisher : London J. Ridgway 1828.
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Admirals
ISBN : ONB:+Z168002809

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A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood by Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood,George Lewis Newnham Collingwood Pdf

Author : Denis Orde
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844681648

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In the Shadow of Nelson by Denis Orde Pdf

Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer. The relationship is all the stranger as their temperaments greatly differed. Collingwood was reserved, austere and shy but utterly competent which was why Nelson's meteoric career was so closely linked to his. Collingwood's reputation was made in battles such as The Glorious First of June (1794) and Cape St Vincent (1797). Collingwood's career survived reverses; he was court-martialed in 1777 by a commander for whom he had no respect. He was acquitted. Collingwood in The Royal Sovereign led the lee column at Trafalgar. After assuming command of the Fleet on Nelson's death he was the author of the famous Trafalgar Despatch that announced the victory and death of Nelson to the Nation. He became Commander in Chief Mediterranean Fleet but was never to return home. He died at sea in 1810. He is buried beside Nelson in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Author : Horatio Nelson,Nicholas Harris Nicolas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Admirals
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000037191

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The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson by Horatio Nelson,Nicholas Harris Nicolas Pdf

Author : Horatio Nelson (1st visct.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600024131

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The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, with notes by sir N.H. Nicolas by Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Admirals
ISBN : WISC:89097316418

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The Life of Admiral Collingwood by Geoffrey Murray Pdf

Author : William Clark Russell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230332553

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The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood by William Clark Russell Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iii. Convoying--Action of July 13th--Narrow Escape--Sir John Jervis--Queer Ships' Companies--War with Spain--Anecdote of Collingwood--Fine Spectacle of Ships--Collingwood and Nelson---Calder's Comment--Collingwood's Modesty--Testimony to his Valour--Two Medals conferred--Collingwood on Nelson--Off Cadiz--Mutiny--Collingwood's Mercifulness--An Anecdote.!he anxiety and worry of convoying is scarcely to be realized in these days of peace and of steam. Figure seventy or eighty sail of ships: many of them heavy, lumbering, round-bowed old merchantmen, so shaped in beam and length that they might have been built by the league and sawed off as customers required them. A dozen ships at a time would be lagging; the naval officer in command would signal them--but to no purpose: the sour old merchant skipper, wrapped up in pilotcloth, eyed the epaulet askant, and sulkily went to work to give as much trouble as possible. Meanwhile there was not only an enemy's fleet to be feared, but swarms of privateersmen who hovered on the skirts of the slow-sailing commercial craft, cutting off one after another in the dead of night, and often in the full glare of day, yet with such agility, with such skilful ocean hotham'S action with the french. 47 manoeuvring, as to keep the naval officer sweeping the sea-line with a telescope at his eye in perplexity, until the sadden staggering away of the captured vessel on an easy bowline left him in no doubt as to what had happened. Having filled his fresh-water casks at St. Fiorenzo, at which place the Excellent had arrived on the 23rd August, 1795, Collingwood sailed for Leghorn on the 27th, and joined the fleet under Admiral Hotham. In a letter to Sir Edward Blackett, dated at this port, he thus refers to the...

Author : Cuthbert COLLINGWOOD (Baron Collingwood.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024863693

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A selection from the public and private correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: interspersed with memoirs of his life. By G. L. Newnham Collingwood ... Fifth edition, containing some new letters, etc by Cuthbert COLLINGWOOD (Baron Collingwood.) Pdf

Author : A. Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590706556

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Memoir of the Naval Life and Services of Admiral Sir Philip C.H.C. Durham by A. Murray Pdf

Author : Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount),Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Admirals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014862242

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The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson by Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount),Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas Pdf

Author : James Stanier Clarke,John M'Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Admirals
ISBN : OSU:32435071102859

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The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K. B. by James Stanier Clarke,John M'Arthur Pdf

Biography of Nelson of published 4 years after Nelson's death. Illustrated with engravings depicting notable events in Nelson's naval career, and battle-views with explanatory plans.

Author : James Stanier Clarke,John M'Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z174484706

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The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson from His Manuscripts by James Stanier Clarke,John M'Arthur Pdf