Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging by Thomas Malcomson
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Overview: Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was “all rum, sodomy and the lash”. How far this was true of the navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is the subject of this important new book.
Summary punishments, courts martial, flogging and hanging were regularly made use of in this period to establish order in the navy. Based on extensive original research, including a detailed study of ships’ captain’s logs and muster tables, this book explores the concepts of order and disorder aboard ships and examines how order was preserved. It discusses the different sorts of disorder and why they occurred; argues that officers toosometimes pushed against the official order; and demonstrates that order was much more than the simple enforcement of the Articles of War.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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