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Storm and Conquest
- The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Publisher's summary
In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. In bringing home Bengali saltpeter for the peninsular campaign with military and civilian passengers, Britain lost 14 of her great "Indiamen", either sunk or taken by enemy frigates. Many hundreds of lives were lost, and the East India Company was shaken to its foundations. The focus of these disasters, military and meteorological, was a tiny French outpost in mid-ocean: the island known as Mauritius.
This is the story of that season. It brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women, and children caught at sea in hurricanes and those who survived to take up the battle to drive the French from the Eastern seas. Mauritius must be taken at any cost!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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liked it but....
Part one is a bit of a mess--the book on paper might be better if it has charts and tables and time-lines.
Even so, it's fascinating to see how the view from the British Navy and the view from the East India Company differ (especially if you're a fan of the Aubrey/Maturin series--more on that later). Important issues include flogging, starting, and a big thing that made the Indiamen miserable at fighting--impressing hands into Navy ships. They hadn't a prayer of getting let alone keeping enough trained people to fight and sail at the same time.
The second part covers the same events as O'Brian's Mauritius Command.
And we find out how much liberty he's taken with the facts. Rather of a lot. But the details of the main battle seemed pretty much the same.
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- J. Mar
- 03-31-23
Hard to Follow but Enjoyable
Seems to me the book is disorganized and is a bunch of scattered stories. Not coherent. Yet, I love any book on this era of naval history and Edward Pellew so I liked it very much. Stephens books aren’t ordinarily like this one. Reader of the book is good.
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Climactic, enjoyable, historically relevant, fair and novel: the reader patient enough to get through the early pages will be well rewarded.
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