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War of 1812 / Carl Benn. "The war of 1812-15 raged across the American frontier, Britain's Canadian colonies, the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the world's oceans. The conflict saw British, American, and Indigenous forces clash, and in the process, shape the future of North America. Respected historian Dr Carl Benn assesses the reasons why ythe United States took up arms, explores the fighting that followed, and considers the meaning of the war's outcomes. This new and thoroughly revised edition draws on scholarly advances that have occured since original publication in 2002, many of which have changed our perception of the conflict. Fully illustrated in colour with specially commissioned maps and over 50 new images, this book provides an accessible and concise overview of the War of 1812." -- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.52

Views of St Helena Bellasis, George Hutchins 1815 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 74.035(42)"18"

The East India Company and provinces in the eighteenth century Thomas, James H 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.227

Paul Periwinkle: or, The pressgang :in three books/By the author of "Cavendish","The flying Dutchman", "Naval surgeon", etc ;Embellished by 40 etchings, drawn and engraved by "Phiz" [pseud.]. Neale, W. Johnson-(William Johnson), 1841. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-311.4

Nelson's daughter / Miranda Hearn. An intriguing novel about Nelson and Lady Hamilton's secret daughter Horatia - Nelson's only descendant - that centres around the complex relationship between Horatia and the woman she believed was only her godmother. 2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-3:92HAMILTON

An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen Laing, John 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:919.84

Institutiones analyticae De Prasse, Mauricii 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5.093:094

Escape from the French : a young Royal Navy midshipman's adventures during the napoleonic war /Edward Boys. "This is an essential first hand account of the war the Royal Navy fought against Napoleon Bonaparte's France. Truth is said to be often stranger than fiction and this tale of battle, capture and escape could have come directly from the pen of C. S Forrester or one of the other famous authors of life before the mast in the early nineteenth century. While sailing on the frigate Phoebe, Boys was present when she took two ships of the enemy fleet. Boys was subsequently put aboard one as prize-master. His elation was short lived as their little convoy was soon surprised by four French frigates and Boys and his scratch crew taken prisoner. Incarceration within a daunting fortress in France followed but still Boys and his companions planned and effected an audacious escape from their formidable prison that was but the prelude to a flight through enemy held territory in the hope of crossing the Channel to England and liberty."--Provided by the publisher. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BOYS

Frigate commander / by Tom Wareham. Based on the previously unpublished private journal of Admiral Sir Graham Moore (1764-1843), this work primarily focuses on Moore's career as a frigate commander beginning with his service in the Perseus, Dido and Adamant. Commanding first the Orestes and the sloop Bonetta in 1790, Moore was promoted to post captain in 1794 with command of the Syren, his first frigate command. His later commands included the larger frigates Melampus and Indefatigable which he commanded until 1805 when ill-health forced him to relinquish the command and ended Moore's career as a frigate commander. However, his naval career continued with commands of the Marlborough and Chatham. Moore was promoted first to the rank of rear admiral and commander-in-chief in the Baltic in 1812, and then in 1819 to vice admiral when he was given command of the Mediterranean station. Moore was promoted in 1837 to full admiral and commander-in-chief Plymouth, but his health continued to deteriorate and he died in 1843. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92MOORE, GRAHAM

Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816 Scoresby, William, 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.22

Address on the presentation of the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society to Professor G. P. Bond : director of the observatory of Harvard College, Cambridge, U.S. De la Rue, Warren, 1865 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 5:094

The journal of Llewellin Penrose, a seaman Penrose, Llewellin 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Penrose, L

On the Broads Dodd, Anna Bowman 1896 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 914.261(282.4)

Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships , and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship Great Eastern...a report to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty Evans, F. J.-(Frederick John), 1861 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11

Admiralty manual for the deviations of the compass ... / Evans, F J. 1901. Evans, F. J.-(Frederick John), 1901 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.1.053.11

On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship / by Frederick John Evans ... and Archibald Smith. Evans, F. J.-(Frederick John), 1865. • • 1 copy available. 629.1.053.11

My inestimable friend / Alastair R. Brown. "In 1779 when William Brown was a fourteen-year-old midshipman on the Frigate Apollo, a French sharp-shooter's musket ball passed through the brim of his hat but injured only his left hand. Many years later, on the deck of HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson would not be so fortunate when a French sharp shooter identified him. One day Alastair Brown was shown a copy of Sherwin's etching, The Death of Lord Robert Manners after the Battle of the Saints by his cousin, who was able to identify William Brown as the midshipman kneeling at the foot of the bed. This chance encounter greatly increased the author's interest in his ancestor's naval career. William remained a midshipman for the five years of peace following the battle until his pursuit of a commission led him to join William Bligh on the Bounty. Perhaps fortunately, he was transferred to another ship by the First Lord of the Admiralty, shortly before the Bounty sailed. In 1805, now commanding the 74-gun Ajax, William received a request from Nelson that Ajax accompany Victory to join the blockade of Cadiz. However, when Nelson later asked him to accompany Admiral Calder back to England for Calder's court martial, William unfortunately missed the Battle of Trafalgar by a few days. William Brown then attended Nelson's funeral before being sent to Malta as the first commissioner for the Royal Navy there. He was Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica when he died there of yellow fever in 1814. Not just a detailed account of the life of an admiral who served at the time of Nelson, the book contains many fascinating insights into life in the Georgian navy and Georgian society at large."--From inside front cover. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BROWN

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

Fast sailing ships : their design and construction, 1775-1875 /David R MacGregor MacGregor, David R.-(David Roy) 1988 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 629.123.13

Tentamen circa trigonometriam sphaeroidicam Thune, Erasmo Georgio Fog 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 51:094

A short history of seafaring / Brian Lavery. From the early Polynesian seafarers and the first full circumnavigations of the globe, to explorers picking their way through the coral reefs of the West Indies, this book tells the compelling story of life at sea that lies behind man's search for new lands, new trade, conquest, and uncharted waters. The great milestones of nautical history from the discovery of America to the establishment of the Royal Navy, the naval history of the Civil War, the Battle of Midway and modern piracy are all charted and set in their cultural and historical context. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 930.9(26)

An Act to enable His Majesty to acquire ground necessary for signal and telegraph stations Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1815 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.725

Unshackling America : how the War of 1812 truly ended the American Revolution /Willard Sterne Randall. "Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary Period of 1763 to 1783 had concluded only one part, the first phase of their ordeal. The Treaty of Paris of 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War halted overt combat but had achieved only partial political autonomy from Britain. By not guaranteeing American economic independence and agency, Britain continued to deny American sovereignty. Randall details the fifty years and persistent attempts by the British to control American trade waters, but he also shows how, despite the outrageous restrictions, the United States asserted the doctrine of neutral rights and developed the world's second largest merchant fleet as it absorbed the French Caribbean trade. American ships carrying trade increased five-fold between 1790 and 1800, its tonnage nearly doubling again between 1800 and 1812, ultimately making the United States the world's largest independent maritime power"--Provided by publisher. 2017 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.03

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

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