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4.0 out of 5 stars
Yes, You Can be a Tough Sea Dog - and Dine Well, Too,
By Fife and Drummer "Fife" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren, Scourge of the Royal Navy (Hardcover)
Verbose but excellent military biography of hard-charging, corpulent French Admiral Suffren. Good insights into how he maintained a squadron off of Ceylon and the Carnatic on the far side of the world in the early 1780s. Suffren was much more aggressive than most French admirals, but, unlike Nelson, he was hampered by ship captains who did not share this attitude. Several excellent area maps and tactical schematics. Nice I.B. Tauris publication.
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The Nelson of France,
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This review is from: Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren, Scourge of the Royal Navy (Hardcover)
An excellent biography of the little-known (in the English-speaking world) French Admiral Suffren, who shook the roots of British power in India. Mostly very well-researched, I would have given this book five stars except for the author's shocking lack of knowledge of New England geography, revealed in his discussion of Suffren's early years as part of the fleet of D'Estaing and its abortive activities in Rhode Island and Boston during the American Revolution. As for the account of Suffren himself and his campaigns in Indian waters, Bravo!
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Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren, Scourge of the Royal Navy by Roderick Cavaliero (Hardcover - June 15, 1994)
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