Название: Nelson’s Sailors
Автор: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Warrior/100
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 67
Размер: 13 Mb
Язык: English


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.