June 2018
Spar Torpedoes – weapons for heroes and madmen
Spar Torpedoes – weapons for heroes and madmen The Spar Torpedo – which plays a vital role in my novel Britannia’s Wolf, the account of Nicholas Dawlish’s [...]
Loss of the troopship Aeneas, 1805
Loss of the troopship Aeneas, 1805 Infantry of the early 19th Century - not all [...]
The Shortest War in History: Zanzibar 1896
The Shortest War in History: Zanzibar 1896 The island of Zanzibar, off the coast of modern Tanzania, was to be the scene in 1896 of what has [...]
The Destruction of HMS Resistance, 1798
The Destruction of HMS Resistance, 1798 When thinking of the two decades of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the hazards that come to mind that faced naval [...]
The Anglo-German Blockade of Venezuela 1902-03
The Anglo-German Blockade of Venezuela 1902-03 I lived for several years in Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second city, which today was a population of 1.3 million. It lies at [...]
The Death of the Adder 1882
The loss of the Dutch Monitor HMNS Adder, 1882 It is well known that the USS Monitor, which can be argued to be the first modern warship, [...]