[PDF.60ui] Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

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 | #4518876 in Books |  2003-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.00 x6.25l, | File type: PDF | 384 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." (

This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. And like any good biography it runs from birth (in a small shipyard on the river Medway near Rochester in 1782), to death (in a breaker's yard a mile or so upstream at the age of fifty-four). In the intervening years, under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the open...

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