old post captain an pseudonym (1 risultati)

Pp. [iii]-xvi+36(last blank); demy 8vo; twentieth century half calf, spine lettered in gilt, brown buckram boards, the lower board lightly faded at edges; later endpapers, bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, early inked signature on title page, some light foxing; printed for Steel and Goddard, London, 1816. *Presumably lacking a half-title page or preliminary blank. The unidentified author had served for 33 years in the Navy and was about to retire on half-pay. He argues that after the war with France those who served in the Navy received inferior treatment to soldiers in the Army: 'The chain of naval victories were, in their day, of import as high, perhaps, as that of Waterloo . . . yet what was done for those in that, or any of these actions? [p. 31]. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a naval officer 'took post' or was 'made post' when he was commissioned to command a rated vessel - a ship too important to be commanded by a lower rank. When a captain received such a command, his name was 'posted' in The London Gazette.