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Gazettes of naval and military exploits, from 1794 to 1807. [1807?]. • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 355.48/49"1794/1807"(42:44):094
A description, with plates of the time-keeper invented by the late Mr Thomas Mudge to which is prefixed a narrative by Thomas Mudge, his son ... / Thomas Mudge [Sr.], Thomas Mudge [Jr.]. Mudge, Thomas, 1799. • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 92Mudge
A missionary voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798 in the ship Duff commanded by Captain James Wilson ... Wilson, William (comp) 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:910.4(96)"1796/1798"
American sanctuary : mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the Age of Revolution /A. Roger Ekirch. "A. Roger Ekirch's American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy--on the British frigate HMS Hermione, four thousand miles from England's shores, off the western coast of Puerto Rico. In the midst of the most storied epoch in British seafaring history, the mutiny struck at the very heart of military authority and at Britain's hierarchical social order. Revolution was in the air: America had won its War of Independence, the French Revolution was still unfolding, and a ferocious rebellion loomed in Ireland, with countless dissidents already arrested. Most of the Hermione mutineers had scattered throughout the North Atlantic; one of them, Jonathan Robbins, had made his way to American shores, and the British were asking for his extradition. Robbins let it be known that he was an American citizen from Danbury, Connecticut, and that he had been impressed into service by the British. John Adams, the Federalist successor to Washington as president, in one of the most catastrophic blunders of his administration, sanctioned Robbins's extradition, according to the terms of the Jay Treaty of 1794. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was sentenced by the British to death, hauled up on the fore yardarm of the frigate Acasta, blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back, and hanged. Adams's miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by news of Robbins's execution without his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury. Thomas Jefferson, then vice president and leader of the emergent Republican Party, said, "No one circumstance since the establishment of our government has affected the popular mind more." Congressional Republicans tried to censure Adams, and the Federalist majority, in a bitter blow to the president, were unable to muster a vote of confidence condoning Robbins's surrender. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in full detail the story of how the Robbins affair and the presidential campaign of 1800 inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams's defeat and Jefferson's election as the third president of the United States. Ekirch writes that the aftershocks of Robbins's martyrdom helped to shape the infant republic's identity in the way Americans envisioned themselves. We see how the Hermione crisis led directly to the country's historic decision to grant political asylum to refugees from foreign governments--a major achievement in fulfilling the resonant promise of American independence, as voiced by Tom Paine, to provide "an asylum for mankind"."--Provided by the publisher. [2017] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.133
An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales. . . Mudge, William 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 528(4):094
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Smith, Adam 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:33
Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African / edited by Vincent Carretta. Sancho, Ignatius, 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.1/3200496
West Indian slavery and British abolition, 1783-1807 / David Beck Ryden. "This book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. Recent historians believe that this first blow against slavery was the result of social changes inside Britain and pay little attention to the important developments that took place inside the West Indian slave economy. David Beck Ryden's research illustrates that a faltering sugar economy after 1799 tipped the scales in favor of the abolitionist argument and helped secure the passage of abolition." "Ryden examines the economic arguments against slavery and the slave trade that were employed in the writings of Britain's most important abolitionists. Using a wide range of economic and business data, this study deconstructs the assertions made by both abolitionists and anti-abolitionists regarding slave management, the imperial economy, and abolition."--BOOK JACKET. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 306.3/6209729
A vocabulary of sea phrases and terms of art used in seamanship and naval architecture Captain of the British Navy, A 1799 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 656.61French:094:800.866
Traite de mecanique celeste / par M. le Marquis de Laplace Laplace, Pierre Simon,-marquis de, 1799-1825 • RARE-BOOK • 5 copies available. 521.1:094
Naval chronicle : contemporary record of the Royal Navy at war /ed. by Nicholas Tracy. 1999. • BOOK • 5 copies available. 05Naval Chronicle
Rough waters : American involvement with the Mediterranean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /edited by Silvia Marzagalli, James R. Sofka and John J. McCusker. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49:382(73:262)
Sea soldier : an officer of marines with Duncan, Nelson, Collingwood and Cockburn /by Anne Petrides and Jonathan Downs Wybourn, T. Marmaduke, Major 2000 • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Wybourn
HMS Pickle : the swiftest ship in Nelson's Trafalgar fleet /Peter Hore ; foreword by Andrew Lambert. "The smallest ship in Nelson's fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar was the curiously-named HMS Pickle. The ship was a topsail schooner and, though deemed too small to take park in the fighting it distinguished itself as the ship to bring Captain John Lapenotiere with the news of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar and his death. The schooner set off on October 26th and took 9 days to reach Britain after facing a gale off Cape Finisterre. After the Pickle anchored in Flamouth Bay on November 4th Lapenotiere started his journey to London (a trip that usually took a week was covered in 37 hours with 19 horse changes). [Author] Peter Hore describes the ship's beginnings as a civilian vessel called Sting, through conversion with 10 guns and its role with Admiral Cornwall's Inshore Squadron for French reconnaissance in 1803. HMS Pickle was also involved in the rescue for the crew of HMS Magnificent in 1804 and further reconnaissance missions. This full history details other colourful episodes including a single-ship action against the French privateer Favorite in 1807. Pickle was wrecked in July 1808 when she was grounded as she entered Cadiz harbour but without loss of life. The Pickle's journey is commemorated by Royal Navy Warrant Officers on November 5th."--Provided by the publisher. 2015. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.826PICKLE
Seapower ashore : 200 years of Royal Navy operations on land /ed. by Peter Hore. 2001. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 355.327"1799/1999"
The dispatches and letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson / Nelson, Horatio. 1845. Nelson, Horatio Nelson,-Viscount, 1845 • RARE-BOOK • 14 copies available. 094:92Nelson(044.1)
Papers and correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth / edited by John D. Grainger. "Sir John Duckworth commanded ships and squadrons and fleets throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He was an assiduous correspondent, writing to Admirals St Vincent, Nelson, Collingwood, and numerous other naval officers. He kept every piece of paper he wrote on or received. He was in the first expedition to the West Indies when he went on a mission to the United States to suppress a French privateer. He commanded a ship in First of June fight in 1794, and was peripherally involved in the great naval mutinies of 1797. He was picked out by Lord St Vincent to command the recovery of Minorca in 1798. He returned to the West Indies in 1799 where he was commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands, and then at Jamaica. There he was much involved in the Revolutionary war in Haiti, eventually receiving several thousands of French refugees and sending them on to France. A spell with the Channel fleet was succeeded by time at the blockade of Gibraltar. Against orders, he chased a French squadron across the Atlantic and destroyed it (Battle of San Domingo 1796). One of his more curious adventures was a diplomatic mission to the Constantinople to browbeat the Ottoman Sultan into making peace with Russia in 1807. He failed, of course, and was criticised for not bombarding the city. He served out his time afloat with the Channel fleet, displaying his usual humanity. A three-year appointment as governor of Newfoundland completed his career."--Provided by the publisher. 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 359.3/32092
The naval history of Great Britain / W. M. James ; new introductions by Andrew Lambert. James, William, 2001. • BOOK • 6 copies available. 355.49"1793/1827"(42)
Russian California, 1806-1860 : a history in documents /compiled and edited by James R. Gibson and Alexei A. Istomin. "This two-volume book is a documentary history of Russia's 19th-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents (letters, reports, travel descriptions, censuses, ethnographic and geographical information), mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, very fully annotated, and with an extensive historical introduction, maps, and illustrations, many in colour. This broad range of primary sources provides a comprehensive and detailed history of the Russian Empire's most distant and most exotic outpost, one whose liquidation in 1841 presaged St Petersburg's abandonment of all of Russian America in 1867. Russia from the sixteenth century onwards had steadily expanded eastwards in search of profitable resources. This expansion was rapid, eased not only by the absence of foreign opposition and disunity of the native peoples but also by Siberia's river network and the North Pacific's convenient causeway of the Aleutian chain leading to Alaska. It was paid for largely by the 'soft gold' of Siberian sables and Pacific sea otters. By the end of the 1700s, however, on the Northwest Coast of North America the Russians met increasing opposition from the indigenous people (Tlingits) and foreign rivals (American and English fur-trading vessels). This combination soon depleted the coast of sea otters, and at the same time the Russians were finding it ever more expensive to obtain supplies from Europe by overland transport across Siberia or round-the-world voyages, so under the aegis of the monopolistic Russian-American Company (1799) they leapfrogged southward to the frontera del norte of the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Here, in 1812, they founded Russian California (officially, Ross Counter) as a base for hunting the Californian sea otter, growing grain and rearing stock, and trading with the Spanish missions. Eventually the exclave comprised a fort (Ross), a port (Bodega), five farms, and a hunting and birding station on the Farallon Islands, as well as a shipyard, a tannery, and a brickworks. The successes and failures of these enterprises, the perils of navigation, experiments in agriculture, the personal, political and economic problems of the colony, and Russian engagement with the indigenous population all come to life in these pages."--Provided by the publisher. 2014. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 061.22HAKLUYT
Astronomie De La Lande, Jerome le Francais 1792 • RARE-BOOK • 6 copies available. 52.092:094
The Naval chronicle / edited by James Stanier Clarke and John McArthur. Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men. 2010. • JOURNAL • 31 copies available.
The Naval chronicle. Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men. 1799-1818. • JOURNAL • 40 copies available. 354.427
The diary of Joseph Farington / edited by Kenneth Garlick and Angus Macintyre "Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional topographical artist and lived most of his life in London. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy, his wide circle of friends, and his membership in several clubs and societies, he touched the life of his time at many points. This diary, which he kept from 1793 until his death, provides a meticulous record of his actions and observations and is an invaluable source for the history of English art and artists. It also constitutes an absorbing record of this period's social, political, and literary developments."--Provided by the publisher. 1978-84 • BOOK • 17 copies available. 92FARINGTON, Joseph
Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy : hired- armed vessels, gun-boats, revenue and excise cutters and packets, with their commanders and stations. To which are added the following lists, etc. • JOURNAL • 43 copies available.