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Order and Disorder in the British Navy, 1793-1815: Control, Resistance, Flogging and Hanging

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How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish?

Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash". How far this was true of the navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is the subject of this important new book.

Summary punishments, courts martial, flogging and hanging were regularly made use of in this period to establish order in ...