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Robert Townsend Farquhar

1776–1830

Robert Townsend Farquhar was a British colonial administrator who served in Mauritius and other imperial posts during the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic periods. His career reflects the administrative side of Britain’s expanding Indian Ocean empire.

Patrick O’Brian’s The Mauritius Command places Robert Townsend Farquhar within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and crime, espionage and covert power.

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Aubrey–Maturin Novels in Order

by Patrick O’Brian 21 books 4.5

The Aubrey–Maturin novels follow Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon, naturalist and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin from the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France through the War of 1812 and the first years after Waterloo. Across twenty completed novels, their friendship links shipboard command, espionage, science, domestic…

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