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Nelson's Sailors

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Warrior - 1500 - 1900 A.D.

MSRP old price: $18.95


Product Info

Title
Nelson's Sailors
Publisher
Category
Author
Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publish Year
2005
Pages
64
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147397859
MFG. Part #
OSPWAR100
Type
Softcover
Series
WAR100

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.