Here Vigo
In N.A.M. Rodger’s The Command of the Seas I may have found, in the battle of Vigo, the story through which I can introduce the Stuart navy. First some background. After the exhausting wars of […]
A navy bankrupt
The overriding impression one gets from proper research of the navy of the Stuart period is that it was bankrupt, even during the Republic. There were ships kept at sea to avoid having to pay […]
The Highlanders at Cairndhu
While I’m busy with N.A.M. Rodgers naval histories around the Jacobite period, I need to start thinking of what the end will be – just an interest, or the basis for some stories. The first […]
During the Jacobites
I don’t know what I would do without N. A. M. Roger and his books like, The Safeguard of the Seas and The Command of the Seas. They are so thoroughly researched with details of […]
Exploration by the wind
Modern historians seem to assume that deep water navigation is a recent invention and until it’s mathematical problems had been solved it was impossible to undertake an ocean voyage. I had a lesson in basic […]
Voyages of discovery?
Scottish fishermen being in the Arctic ocean at the time of the Reformation between the time of Henry VIII and Good Queen Bess has stirred a bee in my bonnet. I’ve felt for some time […]
The Scottish fishermen and Ivan the Terrible
I had just settled back to the Stuarts when my local Writers’ Group decided the months task would be a letter that changed the World. Naturally I looked over Bonnie Prince Charlie and his antecedents […]
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Keeping the reader on side
I’ve been editing a novel I wrote some time ago about a Highland drover sorting out the point of view for each scene and chapter. I’d thought it wasn’t to important compared with the story […]
So you want John Wayne
I’ve been belabouring Bonnie Prince Charlie and it’s taking me away from my objective of sea stories, so I need to stop. Just one last comment. Someone asked me if I could do a John […]
Up to Culloden
I watched Neil Oliver again and while admitting he was talking of the clans at the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebellion, I notice the comment that Charlie lost about a third of his ‘army’ […]
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Tagged Eilean Donan Castle, Historical fiction, N.A.M. Rodger, Naval History, Story lines from history