The prizes of war : the naval prize system in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 / Richard Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, J. R.

Contributor:

Royal Naval Museum (Portsmouth, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prizes (Property captured at sea)--Great Britain.

Prizes (Property captured at sea).

First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797--Prizes, etc.

First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797.

Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801--Prizes, etc.

Second Coalition, War of the, 1798-1801.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Prizes, etc.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

Prize law--Great Britain.

Prize law.

Great Britain.

War, Maritime (International law).

Great Britain--History, Naval--18th century.

Naval history.

Great Britain--History, Naval--19th century.

Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty.

Physical Description:

xx, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton in association with the Royal Naval Museum, 1998.

Summary:

Hill went to sea with the British Navy at age 17, retired as rear admiral working in the Ministry of Defense, pursued naval law for a few years, and has been writing naval books since. Here he explores what happened after a British warship captured an enemy warship, a neutral suspected of running contraband, or a privateer, on the high seas. There were plenty of legal procedures to go through, he shows, before the captors saw their prize money.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-261) and index.

ISBN:

0750918160

OCLC:

40658646