In March of 1814, Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. The bitter and inconclusive war with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon's defeat and...
February 1806 … The frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. It is only four months since the resounding victory over the combined Franco-Spanish fleet at Trafalgar, and the death of...
Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage...
In June 1793 Captain Richard Bolitho arrives at Gibraltar to take command of the Hyperion, a seventy-four-gun ship of the line. Although not completely recovered from a serious fever contracted in the Great South Sea, Bolitho is eager to get back...
In the spring of 1797 Richard Bolitho brings the 100-gun Euryalus home to Falmouth to be flagship of the hastily formed squadron which has been chosen to make the first British re-entry to the Mediterranean for nearly a year. As flag captain,...
In September 1804, England stands alone against France and the fleets of Spain, daily expecting an invasion. Entrusted with an urgent mission for the King, Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho hoists his flag above the veteran seventy-four-gun ship...
Gleich mit seinem ersten Kommando, der Brigg SANDPIPER, hat Richard Bolitho eine harte Bewährungsprobe zu bestehen, denn die Flotte Seiner Majestät, des englischen Königs, hat Befehl, dem Piratenunwesen vor der Küste Senegals ein Ende zu...
1778: Der amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskampf stellt die Royal Navy vor eine harte Bewährungsprobe. Nur deshalb erhält der junge Leutnant Bolitho sein erstes selbständiges Kommando: auf der Korvette Sparrow als Begleitschutz einiger...
1782 — Kaum wieder in der Heimat, wird Richard Bolitho mit seinem neuen Kommando, der Fregatte PHALAROPE, zurück nach Westindien beordert, um das karibische Geschwader zu verstärken. Doch die PHALAROPE ist ein Unglücksschiff, die Mannschaft...