Author: William James
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Naval History of Great Britain
Author: William James
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Naval History of Great Britain: 1797-1799
Author: William James
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793; to the Accession of George 4., in January 1820; with an Account of the Origin and Progressive Increase of the British Navy; Illustrated, from the Commencement of the Year 1793, by a Series of Tabular Abstracts, Contained in a Separate Quarto Volume. By William James, Author of "An Account of the Naval Occurrences of the Late American War," &c. &c. In Five Volumes. Vol. 1. [-5.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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The naval history of Great Britain, from ... 1793, to ... 1820, with an account of the origin and increase of the British navy
Author: William James
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Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Languages : en
Pages : 730
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The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV.
Author: William James
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France, in February 1793, to the Accession of George IV. in January 1820
Author: William I James
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Languages : en
Pages : 660
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The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by Trace in 1793, to the Accession of George IV
Author: William James
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Pages : 618
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The naval history of Great Britain, from ... 1793, to ... 1820, with an account of the origin and increase of the British navy. Chamier
Author: William James
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Pages : 632
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A Selected List of Works in the Library Relating to Naval History, Naval Administration, Etc
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : Naval history
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The Myth of the Press Gang
Author: Jeremiah Ross Dancy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted primarily in a large number of ships' muster books, demonstrates that this view is false. It argues that, in fact, the overwhelming majority of seamen in the navy were there of their own free will. Taking a long view across the late eighteenth century but concentrating on the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815, the book provides great detail on the sort of men that were recruited and the means by which they were recruited, and includes a number of individuals' stories. It shows how manpower was a major concern for the Admiralty; how the Admiralty put in place a range of recruitment methods including the quota system; how it worried about depleting merchant shipping of sufficient sailors; and how, although most seamen were volunteers, the press gang was resorted to, especially during the initial mobilisation at the beginning of wars and to find certain kinds of particularly skilled seamen. The book also makes comparisons with recruitment methods employed by the navies of other countries and by the British army. J. Ross Dancy is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1783270039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means by which the British navy solved the problem of recruiting enough seamen in the late eighteenth century. This book, however, based on extensive original research conducted primarily in a large number of ships' muster books, demonstrates that this view is false. It argues that, in fact, the overwhelming majority of seamen in the navy were there of their own free will. Taking a long view across the late eighteenth century but concentrating on the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815, the book provides great detail on the sort of men that were recruited and the means by which they were recruited, and includes a number of individuals' stories. It shows how manpower was a major concern for the Admiralty; how the Admiralty put in place a range of recruitment methods including the quota system; how it worried about depleting merchant shipping of sufficient sailors; and how, although most seamen were volunteers, the press gang was resorted to, especially during the initial mobilisation at the beginning of wars and to find certain kinds of particularly skilled seamen. The book also makes comparisons with recruitment methods employed by the navies of other countries and by the British army. J. Ross Dancy is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University.