Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Relief
I had a conversation with someone who was giving a talk on Jacobite uprisings and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s amazing escape. When I suggested maybe the British Navy didn’t want to catch him and were relieved […]
I had a conversation with someone who was giving a talk on Jacobite uprisings and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s amazing escape. When I suggested maybe the British Navy didn’t want to catch him and were relieved […]
Until I studied it, I thought the Stuart era, from James 1 and V1 was the Civil War, Charles getting his head chopped off and Bonnie Prince Charlie but there’s a lot more to it […]
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 start of the English Civil War.
My intention is to do a series on the Navy during the Stuart times, ending with Bonnie Prince Charlie and his escape to France but from the British point of view. That means the search […]
Exerts from Ships of the ’45
Is there a sea story?
Shadows in the Veld is the seventh book to be published and follows on from King or Kaiser and the story of how the South Africans helped the Royal Navy in 1914at the start of […]