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A well-written and comprehensive account of the mechanics of running and fighting a warship in the mid-eighteenth century. It would serve as an excellent primer for the subject, and every new naval history student would benefit from adding it to their reading list. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY

This important and closely argued study exploits rich archival resources to render these captains as individuals, the better to comprehend the myriad and variant types of Royal Navy post-captain that existed at the apogee of Georgian glory. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Provides us with a new understanding of the relationship between the Admiralty and its officers.(It is) an enjoyable book that offers new knowledge of and insight into the eighteenth century Royal Navy. FORUM NAVALE, A marvellous book, alive with appropriate detail, rich in evidence. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORYThis important and closely argued study exploits rich archival resources to render these captains as individuals, the better to comprehend the myriad and variant types of Royal Navy post-captain that existed at the apogee of Georgian glory. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY A well-written and comprehensive account of the mechanics of running and fighting a warship in the mid-eighteenth century. It would serve as an excellent primer for the subject, and every new naval history student would benefit from adding it to their reading list. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY

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A.B. MCLEOD obtained her doctorate in naval history from the University of Exeter following careers as a teacher and in the City.

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