The Naval Mutinies of 1798: The Irish Plot to Seize the Channel Fleet
This book offers a micro study of how the planned mutiny plot developed and was co-ordinated. Personalities, cliques and idealists are seen as taking leading roles, with attention given to the motivating issues that lay behind those risk takers who knew that failure would result in likely hanging from the yardarm
Philip MacDougall
- Pen & Sword Maritime
- 9781399044592
- 240 pages
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- Maritime history
