| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 417 pages) : illustrations |
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Publications of the Navy Records Society |
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Publications of the Navy Records Society.
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| Contents |
Chapter I Accounts from the Early Years of the Office of the Clerk of the King's Ships; Thomas de Snetesham's Accounts for 1344-45 and 1350-54 -- chapter II More Documents for the Last Campaign of the Mary Rose -- chapter III The Royal Navy and the Enforcement of the Stamp Act, 1764-65: The Account of Captain Archibald Kennedy RN -- chapter IV James Ramsay's Essay of 1780 on the Duty and Qualifications of a Sea Officer -- chapter V Sir John Borlase Warren and the Royal Navy's Blockades of the United States in the War of 1812 -- chapter VI Captain John Pascoe Grenfell of the Brazilian Navy in the River Plate, March to August 1826 -- chapter VII Lord Northbrook's 1885 Response to William T. Stead's Criticisms of Naval Preparedness in the Pall Mall Gazette -- chapter VIII Conveying the Emperor Haile Selassie into Exile |
| Summary |
"Brian Vale is a naval historian with degrees from Keele and King's College London. A life-long member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society, he has long specialised in Anglo-South American maritime history. His books include Independence or Death! British sailors and Brazilian Independence, A Frigate of King George, The Audacious Admiral Cochrane and Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedom in Spanish America."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Naval art and science -- Miscellanea
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Naval history -- Miscellanea
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Naval battles -- Miscellanea
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HISTORY -- Maritime History & Piracy.
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Naval art and science
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Naval battles
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Naval history
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vale, Brian, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315184333 |
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1315184338 |
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9781351730839 |
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1351730835 |
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9781351730815 |
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1351730819 |
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9781138219793 |
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1138219797 |
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9781351730822 |
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1351730827 |
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