Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon by David Cordingly

Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

David Cordingly

384 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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The story of the seventy-four-gun warship Bellerophon will be familiar to anyone who's read Patrick O'Brian or C. S. Forester. The Billy Ruffian runs from its subject's birth, in a small shipyard in 1782, to her death in a breaker's yard more than...

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