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Midshipmen and quarterdeck boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831 / S.A. Cavell. "Officer recruits - "young gentlemen" - entered the Royal Navy with dreams of fame, fortune and glory, but many found promotion difficult, with a large number unable to progress beyond lieutenant. Recent scholarship has argued that during the wars of 1793-1815 there was greater social diversity among naval officers, with promotion increasingly related to professional competence. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the social background of around 4,000 "young gentlemen" a term which includes midshipmen and various other categories, including captains' servants, volunteers and masters' mates. It concludes that in fact high birth became an increasingly important factor in the selection of officer candidates, and that as the Admiralty grip on the appointment and management of officer aspirants increased, especially after 1815, aristocratic presence in the ranks of young officers increased significantly as a result of deliberate Admiralty policy. The book also discusses the assertion that the increase in elite sons led to a dramatic increase in cases of indiscipline and insubordination, concluding that although there was a marked increase in courts martial for insubordination during and after the French Wars there is no evidence that such cases related more to the elites than to young aspirants in general."--Back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.335.34"17/18"

Scandal of colonial rule : power and subversion in the British Atlantic during the age of revolution /James Epstein. "In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 'home' and exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow"-- 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 326.1(729)"18"

Memoirs of the life of the late Major-General Andrew Burn, of the Royal Marines ... Burn, Andrew 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Burn

Memoirs of Lady Hamilton : with illustrative anecdotes of many of her most particular friends and distinguished contemporaries. 1815. • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Hamilton

A practical treatise on finding the latitude and longitude at sea ... Rossel, Elisabeth Paul Edouard de 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.28

On the Greenland or polar ice Scoresby, William 1815 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 919.88

The new British Channel pilot ... Heather, William 1815 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83(261/262)

Traite elementaire de la mature des vaisseaux, a l'usage des eleves de la marine Willaumez, E 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:629.12.014.21

Report of the Commissioners upon the subject of harbours of refuge Great Britain.-Parliament.---House of Commons 1815 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 627.2(42)

Trattato elementare dell'alberatura delle navi Forfait, Pierre Alexandre Laurent 1979 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12.014.21

That Hamilton woman : Emma and Nelson /Barry Gough "Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britain's naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book Barry Gough, employing the letters between the protagonists, and the unpublished examination of her career by famed American historian of the Royal Navy Arthur Marder, strongly defends Emma. He shows how this most talented of women and the beauty of her age fell victim to innuendo, slander and cruel caricature. She was to die in poverty in Calais in 1815, just months before Napoleon's final defeat. England's greatest sailor fell deeply in love with Emma in the years before Trafalgar. This, together with his quest for glory and victory entangled him in an inescapable web of circumstances and calumny. The author explores the evolving scandal, the high political stakes that were involved, and the love affair itself which so influenced the fortunes of England's glory and the fate of her Wooden Walls. No novelist could have created such a tortuous scenario, charged as it was with high emotions, slurs, insults and slander. Richly illustrated throughout, the book shows Emma, probably the most painted woman of her age, in all her glories; it also shows how heartlessly caricaturists treated her. 'That Hamilton woman' will long remain a controversial figure but here the author places her as one of the forces that gave the Royal Navy its will to fight and conquer. He depicts sympathetically a woman entrapped in circumstances of her own making, her saga reminding us of how frail is human fortune."--Provided by the publisher 2016. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92HAMILTON

The British Navy in the Mediterranean / John D. Grainger "This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the Crusades, and to the seventeenth century, when the Barbary corsairs became a major problem. It outlines Britain's involvement in the wars of the long eighteenth century, when Britain obtained bases at Gibraltar, Minorca and Malta and repeatedly defeated the French and Spanish navies. It examines the navy's activities during the First and Second World Wars, when the Mediterranean was again of crucial strategic significance and a major theatre of war, and goes on to consider Britain's withdrawal from the Mediterranean in the later twentieth century. Throughout, the book relates naval activity to patterns of trade, including the rise and decline of the Levant Company, and to wider international politics."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.353(42:262)

The sailor boy : a poem in four cantos : illustrative of the navy of Great Britain Ireland, Samuel William Henry 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-1

Emma Lady Hamilton : from new and original sources and documents, together with an appendix of notes and new letters /by Walter Sichel. Sichel, Walter 1905. • BOOK • 3 copies available. 92Hamilton

the eagle : Anglo-German naval confrontation in the imperial era : volume one : the protagonists : 1815 Gregory, David-(Royal Naval officer) 2012- • BOOK • 2 copies available. 355.49"19/20"(42:43)

The floating prison : the remarkable account of nine years captivity on the British prison hulks during the Napoleonic wars, 1806 to 1814 A translation of Garneray's account of his life as a prisoner of war on board the prison hulks, originally published in French in 1851 as Mes Pontons. Louis Garneray (1783-1857), a marine artist, went to sea at the age of 13, serving on board privateers in the Indian Ocean until captured by the British in 1806. This work records Garneray's confinement on the Prothee, Crown and Vengeance, hulks stationed in Portsmouth harbour, and the Pegase, a hospital ship. In the foreword describing Garneray's life, the translator, Richard Rose, highlights inconsistencies in Garneray's account and casts some doubt on his reliability as a historian and narrator while accepting the accuracy of his depiction of daily life, routines and physical conditions on board the hulks. Garneray went on to become one of the foremost marine painters of his day, having developed his talent during his captivity. The title includes illustrations and plates of paintings by Garneray. Appendices provide lists of the hulks stationed at Portsmouth and French officers on board and on parole, details of Garneray's sources, background on the rafales, women on board, the mortality of prisoners of war, and brief biographies of people connected to the hulks and linked to Garneray's narrative. The work is supported by detailed notes and a bibliography. 2003 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.124.79:343.81

The horrible peace : British veterans and the end of the Napoleonic Wars /Evan Wilson. "Few battles in world history provide a cleaner dividing line than Waterloo: before, there was Napoleon; after, there was the Pax Britannica. While Waterloo marked France's defeat and Britain's ascendance as an imperial power, the war was far from over for many soldiers and sailors, who were forced to contend with the lasting effects of battlefield trauma, the realities of an impossibly tight labor market, and growing social unrest. The Horrible Peace details a story of distress and discontent, of victory complicated by volcanism, and of the challenges facing Britain at the beginning of its victorious century. Examining the process of demobilization and its consequences for British society, Evan Wilson draws on archival research and veterans' memoirs to tell the story of this period through the experiences of veterans who struggled to reintegrate and soldiers and sailors who remained in service as Britain attempted to defend and expand the empire. Veterans were indeed central to Britain's experience of peace, as they took to the streets to protest the government's indifference to widespread unemployment and misery. The fighting did not stop at Waterloo"-- [2023] • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.00941

A modern atlas from the latest and best authorities, exhibiting the various divisions of the world, with its chief empires, kingdoms, and states, in sixty maps Pinkerton, John 1815 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"18"

The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and four seamen... Woodard, David 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-992

A modern atlas from the latest and best authorities ... Pinkerton, John 1815 • ATLAS-OVER • 1 copy available. 094:912.44(100)"18"

Geographie de Strabon : traduite du Grec en Francais [par La Porte du Theil, Coray et Letronne, avec des notes de Gossellin]. Strabo 1809-1819 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:913.8

The naval monitor : containing many useful hints ... Officer in the Navy 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"18"

Paddy Hew : a poem Tarpaulin, Timothy 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 820-1

Lives of the British admirals : containing an accurate naval history from the earliest periods Campbell, John,-Dr 1815 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.33(42):094:92

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