This remarkable compilation includes both official and private correspondence and papers from a wide variety of sources both English and Dutch (the latter translated), giving an extremely detailed and complete view of all aspects of the war. The first volume extends to August 1652. The translations of many of the Dutch documents are unsatisfactory, and… Read Abstract »
This was the first of the Miscellany volumes and while it contains documents from the sixteenth century to the turn of the nineteenth century, the majority relate to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Of the two sixteenth century documents, one relates to French warship signals and the other is a narrative of the Cadiz… Read Abstract »
This remarkable compilation includes both official and private correspondence and papers from a wide variety of sources both English and Dutch (the latter translated), giving an extremely detailed and complete view of all aspects of the war. The first volume extends to August 1652. The translations of many of the Dutch documents are unsatisfactory, and… Read Abstract »
This remarkable compilation includes both official and private correspondence and papers from a wide variety of sources both English and Dutch (the latter translated), giving an extremely detailed and complete view of all aspects of the war. The first volume extends to August 1652. The translations of many of the Dutch documents are unsatisfactory, and… Read Abstract »
The Surgeon’s Mate (1613) by John Woodall is of national importance since it was the first book written in any language for the ....
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On 9 September 1652 the Act for Calling home Seamen and Mariners and Inhibiting such to serve abroad without License was passed by the ....
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A Scottish Letter of Marque from the Thirty Years’ War: A Legal First in the legal doctrine of ‘Continuous Voyage’, held in The Swedish ....
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This article presents a letter from Captain William Bligh to his wife, Elizabeth, written on 27 January 1800 and now in the collections ....
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