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 […]
Tag: Eilean Donan Castle
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 […]
Eilean Donan
I’ve learned from editing Bubbles in the Cauldron, the historical novel set in the Scottish uprising of 1820, that trying to follow the historical detail makes doing the story difficult unless the protagonists are well […]
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Tagged Eilean Donan Castle, Historical fiction, N.A.M. Rodger, Naval History, Story lines from history