Dawlish Chronicles

It’s always gratifying to see a bully and tyrant cut down to size and a particularly satisfying example of this occurred in London in 1850,...

In 1747, at the height of the War of Austrian Succession, when Britain was (once more) at war with France and Spain, the departure of a Span...

In reading about warfare in the Age of Fighting Sail one is invariably impressed by the aggression and sheer bloody-minded will to win that...

This article, one of the earliest on my blog, was first published almost exactly three years ago. I find it fascinating in that the incide...

This article was first published exactly two years ago but it is, I believe, one of my best. I hope you like it if you did not see it t...

Henry Trollope A week ago, in the blog of 1 st November, we met the “carronade crazy” Royal Navy officer Henry Trollope (1756-1839). H...