Nelson’s Sailors (Warrior, 100)
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| Management number | 232062498 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $7.24 | Model Number | 232062498 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1841769061 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1841769066 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Osprey Publishing |
| Dimensions | 7.25 x 0.25 x 9.7 inches |
| Item Weight | 8 ounces |
| Print length | 64 pages |
| Publication date | August 10, 2005 |
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