Through the long French wars, small armed packets sailed from Falmouth carrying the mails to Lisbon, the West Indies, America and the North Sea ports. Norway uses official records to tell of their fights with privateers, the smuggling and abuses of their crews, the reforms that followed and the shifts used to get letters through Napoleon’s blockade.
Lively naval and postal history by the father of novelist Nevil Shute. Download the free EPUB.