Man of war
Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy
by Richard Lawrence Ollard
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Few biographies have caught more of the spirit and color of the age of Charles II than this life of Sir Robert Holmes. Adventurous, energetic, combative and unscrupulous, Robert Holmes first attracted the attention of Prince Rupert as a young cavalry officer in the Civil War. As a Royalist exile, he accompanied the Prince first into the French service and then, in one of the strangest and most romantic episodes in naval history, on a cruise that carried the Royalist colors -- no longer flying in England -- to Portugal, the Mediterranean, West Africa and the West Indies. After the Restoration, Holmes destroyed, in perhaps the most successful single feat of arms of the century, a great part of the Dutch merchant marine at the cost of barely a dozen casualties. For thirty years he intrigued, maneuvered and quarreled with Samuel Pepys over naval matters ending with a mutual respect for their combined contributions to English naval supremacy. - Back cover.
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Man of war: Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy
2001, Phoenix
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Man of war: Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and indexes.
Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
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