This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Rufflan. And like any good biography it runs from birth (in a small shipyard on the river Medway near Rochester in 1782), to death (in a breaker's yard a mile or so upstream at the age of fifty-four). In the intervening years, under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France; the battle of the Nile (1798), which halted Napoleon's eastern expansion from Cairo; and the battle of Trafalgar (1805), which established British naval supremacy for 100 years and during which her captain was shot dead with a musket ball an hour before Nelson was mortally wounded. But her crowning glory came six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, when the Napoleon, trapped in La Rochelle, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780747565444
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90223797
Product Key Features
Book Title
Billy Ruffian
Author
David Cordingly
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Government, History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
David Cordingly
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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