Download or read book The Falmouth Frigate written by James L. Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1777 is bleak indeed for the cause of American Independence, with the British army twice defeating Washington and taking the capital city of Philadelphia and the Royal Navy sweeping aside the defenses of the Delaware Bay. And for Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and the men of the half-built frigate Falmouth, things are direr still. After managing to slip through a British blockade, they find themselves trapped in a desolate harbor on the New Jersey coast and menaced not by the British but by the outlaw bands that terrorize the countryside and see Falmouth as a potentially valuable prize. Deserter Angus McGinty steals Biddlecomb’s most potent weapon, the captured British sloop Sparrowhawk, leaving him to face the ruthless Pine Robbers on his own, with only his diminished crew and the near-useless local militia to help. Meanwhile, Virginia Biddlecomb, trapped in occupied Philadelphia, sees her chance to play a clandestine role in the fight. In the course of her activities, however, she lets slip information that will put her husband, his ship, and his crew in mortal danger, leading to a desperate race to get the unwieldy Falmouth to a place beyond the reach of the Royal Navy.
Download or read book All the Brave Fellows written by James L. Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1777, the Year of the Hangman, and Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is bound for Philadelphia with his wife and child in the Continental brig Charlemagne. His orders are to take command of the newly built 20-gun frigate Falmouth and get her out to sea before she is taken by General Richard Howe's invading army. Unbeknownst to Biddlecomb, the entire British fleet stands between him and the new nation's capital. Forced to run his beloved Charlemagne aground, Biddlecomb comes face-to-face with his mortal enemy, Royal Navy Lieutenant John Smeaton. Meanwhile, General Washington has yielded Philadelphia to Britain's might. As Biddlecomb and his crew battle to reach the prized Falmouth, only shipwright Malachi Foote and a ragtag band of deserters from the Continental Army stand between the vessel and the seemingly unstoppable British Army.
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Download or read book Battles of the British navy from A D 1000 to 1840 written by Joseph Allen (of Greenwich hosp.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty s Public Record Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series during the Commonwealth 1651 1652 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series of the Commonwealth 1651 1652 written by Mary Anne Everett Green and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book Calendar of state papers domestic series written by Mary Anne Everett Green and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Channel Fleet and the Blockade of Brest 1793 1801 written by Roger Morriss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the French Revolutionary War the Channel Fleet played the crucial role of defending Britain from invasion, protecting Britain’s incoming and outgoing trade through the Channel and Western Approaches, and preventing the French Brest fleet from setting forth on raids and expeditions. Presenting documents revealing the evolution of this role during the war, this book focuses on the blockade of Brest. It shows how the blockade developed and tightened through the increase of Admiralty control of the disposition of the Channel Fleet. It reveals the political conflicts that existed between the Commanders-in-Chief and the Admiralty, the logistical demands that had to be met, and the response of the Admiralty and fleet officers to the Spithead Mutiny. Above all, it reveals the response of the Fleet to the challenges it met from the French in their sequence of break-outs, and from the perennial problem posed by the necessity to preserve the health of seamen. Here, confuting the claims of contemporary medical officers, is evidence that shows how scurvy remained a scourge to the very end of the war.
Download or read book Commander The Life and Exploits of Britain s Greatest Frigate Captain written by Stephen Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." —Jan Morris, The Guardian Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. Yet he had a gift for antagonizing his better-born peers, and he made powerful enemies. Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves. Opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and Pellew himself, leading from the front in the style of his contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive. Pellew’s humanity, fondness for subordinates, and blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his letters, make him a hugely engaging figure. Stephen Taylor gives him at last the biography he deserves.
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Download or read book Letters and Papers Relating to the First Dutch War 1652 1654 written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
