In this installment in Alexander Kent’s excellent series about Richard Bolitho, the action takes place in 1798. Napoleon is concentrating his forces in the Mediterranean. He is preparing to annex Egypt. And now the newly promoted Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent…
This book tells another of the magnificent tales in the saga of Richard Bolitho. For readers of nautical fiction, this is one of the very good series set in the Age of Sail. It is now September 1800. The theme for The Inshore…
According to Wikipedia, a sloop-of-war was a small sailing warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen cannons. However, as the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed…
