The Naval Miscellany: Vol. V

By Michael Duffy, Brian Vale, Christopher Lloyd, W. G. Perrin, N. A. M. Rodger, John Knox Laughton

This edition contains documents from the seventeenth century to the Second World War. There is additional material to complement NRS Volume 116 from the Commission of Enquiry in 1608, an account of...

AUDACIOUS ADMIRAL COCHRANE: The True Life Of A Naval Legend

By Brian Vale, Vale, Brian

Lord Cochrane was a dominant figure in the maritime history of the early nineteenth century. While still a child he held commissions in both the army and navy, and he made his name in 1800 when in...

Physician To The Fleet: The Life And Times Of Thomas Trotter, 1760-1832

By Brian Vale, Griffith Edwards

Cochrane In The Pacific: Fortune And Freedom In Spanish America

By Brian Vale, BRIAN VALE

In 1818, The Revolutionary Government Of Chile Was Poised To Attach Peru, The Last Bastion Of Spanish Power On The Continent. Until Then, The Liberation Of South America Had Been Dominated By The C...

Independence Or Death: British Sailors And Brazilian Independence, 1822-1825

By Brian Vale

"A 'blood and thunder' narrative of Lord Cochrane's career in Brazil and, more broadly, of the activities of British sailors in the Brazilian independence movement and in the postindependence conso...

A War Betwixt Englishmen: Brazil Against Argentina On The River Plate, 1825-1830

By Brian Vale

In 1825, the Empire of Brazil went to war with the Republic of Argentina. The pretext was control of the north bank of the Plate, and consequently of the river itself. The conflict lasted for three...

A Frigate Of King George: Life And Duty On A British Man-Of-War

By Brian Vale

"What was life really like on a wooden warship? This book takes a look at life aboard the 42-gun frigate HMS "Doris" - launched from Bombay in 1807 and finally retired at Valparaiso in 1829. Vale c...

Visitor Pew Cards

By Brian Vale, Vale, Brian

"In 1818, the revolutionary government of Chile was poised to attack Peru, the last bastion of Spanish power on the continent. The new ruler, the half-Irish Bernardo O'Higgins, threw his energies i...

Una Guerra Entre Ingleses

By Brian Vale

Naval Miscellany

By Brian Vale