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Bezig met laden... The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon (editie 2003)door David Cordingly (Auteur)
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This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. And like any good biography, it runs from birth (in a small shipyard on the river Medway near Rochester in 1782), to death (in a breaker's yard a mile or so upstream at the age of fifty-four). In the intervening years, under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles- the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France; the battle of the Nile (1798), which halted Napoleon's eastern expansion from Cairo; and the battle of Trafalgar (1805), which established British naval supremacy for 100 years and during which her captain was shot dead with a musket ball an hour before Nelson was mortally wounded. But her crowning glory came six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon, trapped in La Rochelle, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The stories of the Bellerophon's battles and "adventures" have the right blend of fact and action. In particular, I found the account of Trafalgar very interesting compared to other histories, concentrated as it was on the experiences of one particular ship. That to me personalized the battle better than any other Trafalgar history I have read. ( )