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Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy (Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories)

Teresa Michals

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Description:Throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy had a peculiar situation: too many talented and ambitious officers, all competing for a limited number of command positions. Given this surplus, we might expect that a major physical impairment would automatically disqualify an officer from consideration. To the contrary, after the loss of a limb, at least twenty-six such officers reached the rank of commander or higher through continued service. Losing a limb in battle often became a mark of honor, one that a hero and his friends could use to increase his chances of winning further employment at sea. Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals focuses on the lives and careers of four particularly distinguished officers who returned to sea and continued to fight and win battles after losing an arm or a the famous admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, who fought all of his most historically significant battles after he lost his right arm and the sight in one eye, and his lesser-known fellow amputee admirals, Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Sir James Alexander Gordon. Their stories shed invaluable light on the historical effects of physical impairment and this underexamined aspect of maritime history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy (Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories). To get started finding Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy (Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy had a peculiar situation: too many talented and ambitious officers, all competing for a limited number of command positions. Given this surplus, we might expect that a major physical impairment would automatically disqualify an officer from consideration. To the contrary, after the loss of a limb, at least twenty-six such officers reached the rank of commander or higher through continued service. Losing a limb in battle often became a mark of honor, one that a hero and his friends could use to increase his chances of winning further employment at sea. Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals focuses on the lives and careers of four particularly distinguished officers who returned to sea and continued to fight and win battles after losing an arm or a the famous admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, who fought all of his most historically significant battles after he lost his right arm and the sight in one eye, and his lesser-known fellow amputee admirals, Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Sir James Alexander Gordon. Their stories shed invaluable light on the historical effects of physical impairment and this underexamined aspect of maritime history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy (Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories). To get started finding Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy (Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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