Letters of seamen in the wars with France, 1793-1815 / helen Watt ; Anne Hawkins.

Letters of seamen below the rank of commissioned officer are rare, both in original form and in print. This edited collection of 255 letters, written by seamen in the British Navy and their correspondents between 1793 and 1815, gives voice to a group of men whose lives and thoughts are otherwise mos...

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