NAVAL GAZETTEER, BIOGRAPHER, AND CHRONOLOGIST; CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE LATE WARS, FROM THEIR COMMENCEMENT IN 1793 TO THEIR CONCLUSION IN 1801; AND FROM THEIR RE-COMMENCEMENT IN 1803 TO THEIR FINAL CONCLUSION IN 1815; AND CONTINUED, AS TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL PART, TO THE PRESENT TIME. A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION. COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY J. W. NORIE, AUTHOR OF A NEW AND COMPLETE EPITOME OF NAVIGATION, &c. &c. London: PRINTED FOR AND PUBLISHED BY J. W. NORIE & Co. AT THEIR NAVIGATION WAREHOUSE AND NAVAL ACADEMY, Price Fourteen Shillings in boards. PREFACE. DURING the late eventful wars, the last edition of the NAVAL CHRONOLOGIST made its appearance; and the distinguished and flattering reception which so generally and unequivocally were given to that little work, would have afforded an ample and sufficient reason for again bringing it before a British public; but the present proprietors, aware of the importance of the subject, and stimulated by the desire of rendering it an object more worthy of their patronage, and more decidedly useful to that class of the community for which it is principally designed, have spared neither pains or expence to extend its attractions, and increase its utility, by the introduction of a series of numerous and highly-interesting biographical sketches, together with a great variety of additional information, calculated to elucidate the former plan, and complete the subjects they are intended to illustrate. With a view to these objects, the editor of this new and improved edition has continued the narration of naval occurrences to the conclusion of hostilities in Thulin 10/30/50 509139 |