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Description

Drawing on many contemporary sources and eyewitness accounts, this book examines the lives of the ordinary sailors of the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), detailing their attitudes, duties, comforts, hardships, vices and virtues. The popular image of the British sailor of this time is of a press-ganged wretch living off weevil-infested food, motivated only by prize money and facing constant hazards aboard a floating hell, where discipline was maintained by the lash. The extent to which this enduring image accords with reality is revealed here.

Table of Contents

Introduction · Chronology · Enlistment · Training · Appearance and equipment · Everyday life · Experience of battle · Colour plate commentary · Museums · Collecting · Re-enactment · Index

Product details

Published Aug 10 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 64
ISBN 9781841769066
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 8 b/w; 39 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Warrior
Short code WAR 100
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Gregory Fremont-Barnes

Gregory Fremont-Barnes holds a doctorate in Modern…

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Steve Noon

Steve Noon was born in Kent, UK, and attended art…

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