A personal narrative of events, from the year 1800 to 1815 : including the expeditions to Ferrol and Egypt : the Sieges of Gaeta, Col de Balaguer and Tarragona ; mutiny of Fribourg's Regiment at Malta, in 1806 ; Battle of Trafalgar, with extracts from the log of H.M. ship Neptune, 98 guns, on that day ; two trips to the army of Lord Wellington in 1811 and 12 ; concluding with a narration of some of the principal events in the Chesapeake and South Carolina, in 1814 and 1815: interspersed with anecdotes, and embellished with four engravings, also a map of the Rive Patuxent, where the British army landed, when they marched to Washington / by a captain of the Navy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovell, William Stanhope, 1788-1859.

Contributor:

Captain of the Navy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lovell, William Stanhope, 1788-1859.

Lovell, William Stanhope.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--Biography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Sea life.

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

Admirals--Great Britain--Correspondence, memoirs, etc.

Admirals.

Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805.

North America--History--19th century.

North America.

Great Britain. Royal Navy.

Armed Forces--Officers.

Armed Forces--Sea life.

Spain--Cape Trafalgar.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Naval history.

Physical Description:

vii, 186 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, folded map ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Personal narrative of events, from 1799 to 1815, with anecdotes

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth [England] : Printed by W. Harrison, High-Street, 1837.

Notes:

Second edition published in 1879 has the title: Personal narrative of events, from 1799 to 1815, with anecdotes / By the late Vice-Adml. Wm. Stanhope Lovell.

Signatures: [A]⁴-₂B.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker 46234

Shaw & Shoemaker 46234.

OCLC:

32470492