Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815)
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John Duff Markland diary
Collection
Identifier: MS 0220
Overview
The diary kept by First Lieutenant John Duff Markland includes an itinerary of the voyage of the HMS Albion in the East Indies 1803-1805, and several pages of poetry, but is primarily a series of sketches of ships, shore views, many in color, including drawings of flowers.
Dates:
1803 - 1805
Sir George Cranfield Berkeley papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0011
Abstract:
The Berkeley collection consists of letters and British naval orders spanning the years 1808 to 1813. All of the letters in this collection concern the naval operations under Sir George Cranfield Berkeley 's command. They include naval appointments, administrative orders, dismissals, discharges, conscription of U.S. seamen, and coordination of supply ships with the British Army. The letters in the collection were written primarily by men associated with the British Admiralty, the British...
Dates:
1808 - 1813; Majority of material found within 1809 - 1811
Sir John William Phillips Marshall papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0141
Abstract:
Bound volume of transcribed correspondence to and from British Rear Admiral Sir John William Phillips Marshall, CB (1785-1850), during the period of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) and concurrent War of 1812, including correspondence concerning a court martial related to the capture and destruction of the ship H.M.S. Java by the USS Constitution in 1813.
Dates:
1802 - 1850