I want to be an Admiral
N.A.M. Rodger: The Age of Sail, 30 July 2020
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740-1840
by Stephen Taylor.
Yale, 490 pp., £20, April,978 0 300 24571 4 Show More
by Stephen Taylor.
Yale, 490 pp., £20, April,
“... officer, gunner of the Caesar. In 1809 he was taken prisoner at the Basque Roads action. Joshua Davis was an earlier naval prisoner, an American who in 1778 was taken by the frigate Surprise aboard the Jason of Boston, a rebel privateer. He changed sides several times after his capture. He describes himself as ‘an American citizen who was pressed and ... ”