Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0747565449
ISBN-13
9780747565444
Edition
New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 6th, 2004
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
298 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 13.10 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Maritime historyNaval forces and warfareNaval forces & warfareMaritime history
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Under fourteen captains, the ship Bellerophon played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794); the battle of the Nile (1798); and the battle of Trafalgar (1805). This book presents the story of an eighteenth-century fighting ship - known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian.
This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. 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 the Napoleon, trapped in La Rochelle, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years.
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