Autor: Brian Vale

Details Thomas Trotter’s important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and typhus, to the study of addiction, and to improved health and safety in mines. Tho …

This book will be useful for students and researchers to gain an insight to several examples of key events in the history of the Royal Navy. The contents of this, the eighth of the Navy Records …

In 1818, the revolutionary government of Chile was poised to attack Peru, the last bastion of Spanish power on the continent. The new ruler, the half-Irish Bernardo O’Higgins, threw his energies into …