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The King's Own

By Frederick Marryat

2019-10-09 21:28:01

Brief Extract: Peters, from that moment, was a desperate man. A short time after he had undergone his sentence, the news of the mutiny at Spithead was communicated; and the vacillation and apprehensions of the Admiralty, and of the nation at large, w ... Read more
Brief Extract: Peters, from that moment, was a desperate man. A short time after he had undergone his sentence, the news of the mutiny at Spithead was communicated; and the vacillation and apprehensions of the Admiralty, and of the nation at large, were not to be concealed. This mutiny was apparently quelled by conciliation, but conciliation is but a half measure, and ineffectual when offered from superiors to inferiors. Less

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File size368.974 KB
Print pages146
PublisherPublic Domain book
Publication date2010-08-30
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1236890719
Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, ...

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