Every Man Will Do His Duty: An Anthology of First-hand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793-1815

Every Man Will Do His Duty: An Anthology of First-hand Accounts from the Age of Nelson 1793-1815

by Dean King (Editor), JohnHattendorf (Editor)

Synopsis

There is no higher expression of the Royal Navy's spirit than Admiral Lord Nelson's exhortation to the fleet before the Battle of Trafalgar: England expects that every man will do his duty. Every Man Will Do His Duty presents the voices of the officers and seamen during the wars of the Age of Nelson (1793-1815), when the Royal Navy gained a naval supremacy that would last more than a century. The remarkable eyewitness accounts in this meticulously researched work offer insights into life aboard a man-of-war. There are battles, fire-ship and cutting-out missions, shipwrecks, press gangs, and deadly encounters with cannibals, told in the words of the men who lived through them.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 462
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press Ltd
Published: 16 Jan 2003

ISBN 10: 085177931X
ISBN 13: 9780851779317

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- 'There is no substitute for the firsthand reporting....This book should not be missed!' - Sea History
Author Bio
Dean King is the author of two highly-acclaimed companions to the novels of Patrick O'Brian, A Sea of Words and Harbors and High Seas. He lives with his wife and family in Richmond, Virginia. John B. Hattendorf, PhD, is the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History and director of the Advanced Research Department at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.