September 2022
British Spying in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras
Guest Blog: British Spying in the Napoleonic Era Introduction by Antoine Vanner: One of the pleasures for me when I joined the historical novelist community a [...]
Hell and High Water – HMS Nautilus, Part 2
Hell and High Water: HMS Nautilus, 1807 Part 2 At the end of Part 1 of this article (Click here to read it if you missed it) we left [...]
August 2022
The Battle of Heligoland 1864
War in the North Sea, 1864 – The Battle of Heligoland Tegetthoff In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries the [...]
The Chesapeake – HMS Leopard Incident, 1807
The Chesapeake – HMS Leopard Incident, 1807 The three-year “War of 1812“between Britain and the United States, brought no great benefit to either nation. Though the issues involved [...]
Battle of Ushant 1778 – its farcical aftermath, the guillotine and a “Citizen King”
The indecisive Battle of Ushant 1778 – and its farcical aftermath, the guillotine and a “Citizen King” France’s entry into the American War of Independence was [...]
July 2022
HMS Royal George Salvage
The salvage of HMS Royal George, 1782 – 1844 HMS Royal George in her glory The loss, while at anchor at Spithead, off Portsmouth, of the ship-of-the-line [...]