[DOWNLOAD] ~ Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero " by Max Adams ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
- Author : Max Adams
- Release Date : January 12, 2015
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 34950 KB
Description
Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend – and rival in love – Nelson. He was also an accomplished writer and wit, a doting father, inveterate gossip and consummate diplomat and strategist.
Collingwood's service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he began as a young midshipman and ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.
ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD is an intimate portrait of a forgotten British naval hero and a thrilling portrait of the glory years of the age of sail.