Nelson's Sailors (Warrior)

Nelson's Sailors (Warrior)

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Book 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.

From the Publisher
Insights into the real lives of history's fighting men, packed with full colour illustrations, highly detailed cutaways, exploded artwork of weaponry and armour, and action-packed battle scenes.

Nelson's Sailors (Warrior),Gregory Fremont-Barnes,Steve Noon,Osprey Publishing,1841769061,Europe - Great Britain - General,History,History - Military / War,History: World,Military,Military - General,Military - Napoleonic Wars,Military - Naval,Military Science,History / Military / General,Warfare & Defence

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