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First of June

by Adrian Westbrooke

Part of The Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series

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In 1794, Captain Nicholas Cruwys brings the frigate Topaze home from the Mediterranean and prepares her for service with Lord Howe’s Channel Fleet. France is threatened by famine, a grain convoy is crossing the Atlantic, and the French fleet leaves Brest to protect it while British scouts search the ocean for both forces.

Cruwys must turn a new company into an effective crew during hard cruising off the French coast. When a sudden vacancy places him in command of a seventy-four-gun ship and six hundred unfamiliar men, he has only days to prepare them for the fleet action remembered as the Glorious First of June.

Historical periods

Royal Navy in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars War of the First Coalition

Genres

Historical Sagas Historical Thriller Maritime Fiction War Fiction

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