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Lambdin Dewey

Книга "The King's Marauder"

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  1. To the memory of the HMS Bounty, which was lost ...
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    2. To the memory of the HMS Bounty, which was lost in Hurricane Sandy off Cape Hatteras, ...
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    6. CONTENTS Title Page Dedication Diagram of Full-Rigged Ship Diagram of...
    7. You brave heroic minds Worthy your country’s name, That honour still pursu...
    8. PROLOGUE A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills ...
    9. CHAPTER ONE After a few months at his father’s estate in Anglesgreen, in the North Down...
    10. CHAPTER TWO “Will there be anything else tonight, sir?” Pettus asked after he’d tugged ...
    11. CHAPTER THREE The Old Ploughman just might be the only place in Anglesgreen where Lewri...
    12. CHAPTER FOUR “Ow,” Lewrie said with a wince, muffling himself to appear stoic and manly...
    13. CHAPTER FIVE “Good luck, sir,” Pettus said as he helped Lewrie into his boat cloak and ...
    14. CHAPTER SIX “Anything for me?” Lewrie asked the club servant behind the anteroom desk a...
    15. CHAPTER SEVEN The next fortnight passed most lazily for Lewrie, with rounds of shopping...
    16. BOOK ONE Britons, you stay too long; Quickly aboard bestow you, And with a ...
    17. CHAPTER EIGHT She’s a ship, an active commission, and earns me full pay again, Lewrie h...
    18. CHAPTER NINE “God, I could play tennis in here!” Lewrie muttered under his breath as he...
    19. CHAPTER TEN “I’m beginnin’ t’think that a two-decker fifty’s not the worst ship to have...
    20. CHAPTER ELEVEN The next few days were spent lading everything from powder and shot to s...
    21. CHAPTER TWELVE The Kent Fusiliers were embarked aboard their transports by Friday eveni...
    22. BOOK TWO Your course securely steer, West and by South forth keep! Rocks, l...
    23. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sunday’s weather was foul, but the winds came fair for sailing that Mo...
    24. CHAPTER FOURTEEN The winds swung more Northerly for a day or two, allowing their column...
    25. CHAPTER FIFTEEN The convoy attained the 15th Longitude a few days later, then hauled th...
    26. CHAPTER SIXTEEN Out past the Lizard, then Land’s End, and past Soundings, the Atlantic ...
    27. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Lewrie didn’t take a nap, of course. He spent his time aft in his cab...
    28. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN HMS Sapphire’s convoy skirted within twelve miles of Cape Trafalgar as...
    29. CHAPTER NINETEEN “First step, then,” Lewrie summed up, after a convivial, but business-...
    30. CHAPTER TWENTY Once atop the quays, Lewrie took a long moment to look back at his ship,...
    31. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Hah, I wonder why they call him ‘the Dowager’, Lewrie had to wonder ...
    32. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “The tea tastes diff’rent,” Lewrie commented after a sip or two. He ...
    33. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The next month at sea entire was spent close along the coast of An...
    34. BOOK THREE Be frolic then Let cannon roar Frighting the wide heaven. ...
    35. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR “Just where in the bloody world did ye dredge him up?” Lewrie asked...
    36. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Over the next two months, HMS Sapphire spent all but two weeks at s...
    37. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX “You’ve done a fine job of it, Mister Mountjoy,” Lewrie said after a...
    38. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Over the next few days, Lewrie began to suspect that he had mis-ju...
    39. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “Mine arse on a band-box, the…!” followed a moment later by “the c...
    40. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE “By the deep, five!” a leadsman in the forechains shouted aft. “Fiv...
    41. CHAPTER THIRTY “Feeling ambitious, Captain Lewrie?” Mr. Thomas Mountjoy asked him once ...
    42. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE The planning session for the raids on the semaphore towers went well...
    43. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO “They weren’t posted there to guard the semaphore tower?” Mr. Thomas...
    44. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Mister Deacon, Mountjoy’s grim assistant and bodyguard, had been w...
    45. BOOK FOUR And in regions far, Such heroes bring ye forth As those from when...
    46. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Minor repairs, re-tarring and slushing, re-roving with fresh rope, ...
    47. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE “Māe de Deus,” Maddalena cooed with her head resting against his sh...
    48. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX “Lastly,” Lewrie said to the assembled officers and Mids gathered ab...
    49. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN “It seems we’ve created quite a scramble already, sir,” Captain Po...
    50. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Captain Hedgepeth aboard Harmony had gotten his ship under way as ...
    51. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE As the helm was put over, HMS Sapphire slowly hauled her wind, fall...
    52. CHAPTER FORTY “Give us a point free, Mister Westcott,” Lewrie ordered after a look alof...
    53. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Lewrie had ordered his collapsible wood-and-canvas deck chair fetched...
    54. EPILOGUE I begin by taking. I shall find scholars afterwards to demonstrate my perfect ...
    55. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO Captain Sir Alan Lewrie, Bart., was having one of the worst mornings ...
    56. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE “The Prize-Court?” Mountjoy asked, puzzled. “The bastards,” L...
    57. Also by Dewey Lambdin The King’s Coat The French Admiral...
    58. ABOUT THE AUTHOR DEWEY LAMBDIN is the author of nineteen previou...
    59. This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this ...