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From: Andr?s Ruiz
Date: 2010 Mar 22, 10:59 +0100
Another basque mariner, died in the battle of
Trafalgar
Churruca in his ship of the line San Juan Nepomuceno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosme_Dami%C3%A1n_de_Churruca_y_Elorza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_ship_San_Juan_Nepomuceno_(1765)
De:
navlist-bounce@fer3.com [mailto:navlist-bounce@fer3.com] En nombre de Michael Bradley
Enviado el: viernes, 19 de marzo
de 2010 17:06
Para: NavList@fer3.com
Asunto: [NavList] Re: Basque
Country XIX Century and Novels of C.S. Forester
Max Adam's
book 'Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's own hero' is a biography of a man who was
absolutely pivotal before, during, and after the battle of Trafalgar and in
suppport of the Spanish of Cadiz in 1808 against the French, and leading up to
the Peninsular War which followed.
IMHO the book reads better than many novels, and Collingwood himself was the
ultimate talented, unpretentious, humane, professional mariner and leader.
And he hailed from hereabouts, just a daylight sail north of Cook's birthplace
...
Copies of Max Adam's various books on Collingwood are currently available
through Amazon or abebooks on both sides of the N Atlantic.
Michael
Bradley
55 North
