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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British in the Revolution, the Barbary Wars, and the arduous conquest of Iwo Jima. The book illuminates the changes—technological, institutional, and...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 21
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of Southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called collaborative...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains: Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking...
11) Ship of the line
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Captain Horatio Hornblower and the undaunted crew of the Sutherland set sail to rival the exploits of Napoleon's ships.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy--and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountainous seas, the Dutchman closes...
13) The dying trade
Author
Series
Privateersman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1967-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
16) Lord Hornblower
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 9
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1946-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
17) Beat to quarters
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985- 1966]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua - a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS "Lydia", to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landoner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line "Natividad" or face court-martial....
Author
Series
John Pearce novels volume 15
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce's old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route, and may have been responsible for the murder of Catherine Carruthers. Back in England their problems continue: Pearce must seek to mend fences with Emily Barclay, in a relationship in which...
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