Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the HMS Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars.
Captain Hornblower has been ordered to find a water route across the Central American isthmus and destroy a fifty-gun Spanish ship, but Hornblower finds himself distracted by his newest passenger, the beautiful Lady Barbara Wellesley.
Presents a brief biography of Sir Francis Drake, the British explorer who traveled around the globe from 1577 to 1580, and includes information on his career as the greatest seaman of the Elizabethan Age.
After only one night with his bride, Hornblower, as commander of the frigate Hotspur, sails for duty off the French Coast to keep Napoleon from invading England.
Surveys the life of Matthew Perry, a naval officer from a seafaring family, whose accomplishments are many but who is best remembered for opening Japan to trade with other nations.
the Bellerophon and the downfall of Napoleon : the biography of a ship of the line, 1782-1836
Cordingly, David
2003
The story of the seventy-four gun warship "Bellerophon" and the role it played in three significant sea battles of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries including the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, which establish British Naval supremacy for 100 years.
Combines simple vignettes, history, legend, and opinion in an exploration of the qualities that have enabled the U.S. Marine Corps to survive and flourish.
