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Dewey Lambdin

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Dewey Lambdin (1945–2021) was an American author best known for writing naval historical fiction. After graduating from Montana State University with a degree in film and television production, he worked in television and advertising before turning to novels. His books combine detailed accounts of seamanship and naval combat with a bawdy, irreverent view of Georgian society. Lambdin also wrote What Lies Buried, a standalone historical mystery set in eighteenth-century North Carolina.

Lambdin’s principal achievement was the twenty-five-volume Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures series, beginning with The King’s Coat. It follows Alan Lewrie, a reluctant young midshipman who develops into an experienced Royal Navy officer during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Novels including The French Admiral, The King’s Commission, The Gun Ketch, A King’s Commander, The Baltic Gambit and Much Ado About Lewrie combine battles, espionage and voyages across the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean with Lewrie’s complicated personal life and frequently questionable conduct ashore.

Periods and events

Abolition Movement in Britain1787–1833 CE American Revolutionary War1775–1783 CE British Conquest of the Cape Colony1806 CE Caribbean Campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars1793–1802 CE Caribbean Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars1803–1815 CE Corunna Campaign / Moore’s Retreat1808–1809 CE East India Company Ascendancy1757–1833 CE Georgian Empire and Atlantic World1714–1837 CE Georgian London1714–1837 CE Peace of Amiens1802–1803 CE Privateering in the Napoleonic Wars1793–1815 CE Qing Dynasty1644–1912 CE Resumption of War with France1803–1805 CE Royal Navy in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars1793–1815 CE War of the First Coalition1792–1797 CE War of the Second Coalition1798–1802 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Dewey Lambdin (1 series)

Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures in Order

by Dewey Lambdin 25 books 4.3(61,103)

The Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures follow a reluctant young rake forced into the Royal Navy in 1780 and carried through the final years of the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Alan Lewrie develops from an inexperienced midshipman into a resourceful captain, commodore…

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