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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire
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Tuesday, 2 February 2016
The Loss of HMS Dædalus, 1813
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We have met Captain Murray Maxwell (1775 –1831) on this blog in an article dealing with his adventures in the frigate HMS Alceste in the F...
Friday, 29 January 2016
Rescue against all odds: Pellew and the Dutton 1796
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We’ve met Edward Pellew (1757 – 1833) on this blog before (see link at end of article) and it’s probable that we’ll meet him again as he ra...
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
The US Navy's Sumatran Expeditions 1832 & 1838
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The US Navy’s role in the suppression of Barbary piracy in the Mediterranean is deservedly well known but few today are aware that in the 1...
Friday, 22 January 2016
A Forgotten Hero of Exploration: Vitus Bering
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Soviet Stamp: 300th Anniversary of Bering When thinking of the exploration of the Pacific the name that most immediately comes for mind...
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Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Capturing a Slaver—1845
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Classic Pantaloon In my blog of 27 th November 2015 (link provided at end of article) I outlined the duties – and the attendant hazar...
Friday, 15 January 2016
The French Navy in Korea, 1866
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The most recent Dawlish Chronicles novel, Britannia’s Spartan, is set in Korea in 1882 when internal pressures and great-power interventio...
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Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Passing by on the other side at sea? 1876
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The Good Samaritan has had a deservedly good image over the last two millennia. An equally well-deserved degree of obloquy has been heaped ...
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