[PDF.71td] The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

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 | #1469337 in Books |  Bloomsbury USA |  2003-10-15 |  2003-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.52 x1.49 x6.22l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Behind the Wooden Walls of England|By Harry Eagar|The Bellerophon -- or Billy Ruffian to Jack Tar, who wasn't familiar with Greek mythology -- is, or at least used to be, a familiar ship to English schoolchildren, because it was the ship that collected Napoleon on his final failure and used to be regularly illustrated in textbooks.

In David Cordingly's deft and strai| |"A masterly account that says as much, if not more, about the historical context as about the subject itself." (Sunday Times )

"Thrilling.so alive you can smell the cordite of the guns and hear the splintering of mighty masts and spars." (

From the author of Under the Black Flag, the biography of a British warship and a portrait of a world at war during the Napoleonic era.

The story of the seventy-four gun warship Bellerophon will be familiar to anyone who's read Patrick O'Brian or C.S. Forester. The Billy Ruffian runs from its subject's birth (in a small shipyard in 1782) to her death (in a breaker's yard more than fifty years later, after serving as a prison ship). In the interveni...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon   |  David Cordingly. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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