Storm and conquest : the battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809 /Stephen Taylor.
An account of maritime losses in the Indian Ocean in 1808 and 1809, in which fourteen East Indiamen carrying saltpetre for the Peninsular campaign were lost to a combination of storms, shipwreck and enemy action.
Record Details
| Publisher: | Faber, |
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| Pub Date: | 2007. |
| Pages: | xx, 380 p. [8] p. of plates : |