Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging

by Thomas Malcomson

Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash." How far this was true of the navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is the subject of this important new book. Summary punishments, courts martial, flogging and hanging were regularly made use of in this period to establish order in the navy. Based on extensive original research, including a detailed study of ships' captain's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783271191
• ISBN13: 9781783271191
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"