[Free read ebook] Admiral Lord St. Vincent – Saint or Tyrant?: The Life of Sir John Jervis, Nelson’s Patron
✿ James D.G. Davidson ✿
| #3986779 in Books | Pen n Sword Books | 2006-09-18 | 2006-10-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.58 x.94 x6.38l,1.17 | File Name: 184415386X | 240 pages |
||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Complete but a bit dry|By L. Veid|As a student of the Royal Navy of the "wooden walls" era, I have encountered numerous references to John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent. Without exception, these references paint a portrait of the uncompromising admiral who hanged men on a Sunday to make a point. I didn't know how that uncompromising admiral had come into being. After reading this b|About the Author|James D G Davidson is an author and historian.
This biography of John Jervis, who became Admiral Lord Vincent, makes compelling reading. It throws an oblique light on Nelson’s personality. St Vincent, who was born twenty-three years before Nelson, and survived for eighteen years after Trafalgar, fundamentally influenced the younger man’s career despite the two men being diametrically different characters. Yet without him, Nelson’s genius might have been submerged by professional jealousy or emo...
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