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Tuesday, 5 January 2016

The sinking of the slave ship Phoenix, 1762

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One well-known image above all symbolises the evil of the Atlantic Slave trade. Some two and a half centuries later it still has the power ...
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Friday, 1 January 2016

The Imperial German Navy vs. Haiti, 1897 and 1902

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The Imperial German Navy that went to war in 1914 was essentially a creation of previous four decades. One tends to think of it in terms of...
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Monday, 28 December 2015

13 Favourites from a Year of Blogging: 2015

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I got somewhat of a surprise when I checked today how many articles I had published on this blog in 2015. The total came to 97, not count...
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Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Christmas to New Year at Sea - 1915

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It is remarkable in the course of this year how little attention has been paid in the media, in popular memory or in large-scale centenary-...
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Friday, 18 December 2015

The Human Price: Mrs. Phelan on HMS Swallow

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Some recent articles on this blog have dealt with inshore-operations of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Characterised by aggress...
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Tuesday, 15 December 2015

HMS Flora 1780: the Carronade's arrival

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In sea battles from the 1780s to the end of the Napoleonic Wars a decisive factor was often the use of the carronade. Few of these guns we...
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Friday, 11 December 2015

“Bring me out the enemy’s ship if you can…” 1796

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Close blockade of the coasts of French-occupied countries in the Napoleonic era was the most important weapon in Britain’s armoury. It may ...
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