audiobook The Adventures of Captain Parquin: the Recollections of a French Cavalry Officer of the Chasseurs During the Napoleonic Era by Denis Charles Parquin in History

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Warship Development from 1860-1905. Full accounts are given of the famous events of the period; such as the loss of the turret ship "Captain"; the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882; the ramming of the "Victoria" by the "Camperdown" in 1893; the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Illustrated throughout with many rare contemporary photographs; this is an indispensable study of one of the most exiting periods in warship development.