Includes 12 illustrations The name of Horatio Nelson still rings across the United Kingdom, and further afield, as a gre
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No man ever made his mark on the British Navy the way that Lord Fisher did. While many of his contemporaries considered
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Nelson admired him. Marie-Antoinette counted him among France’s national heroes. The exiled Napoleon sighed for what mig
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The present study analyses in detail the fortune of a single naval officer, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, whose principal we
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