Continuous Service and Impressment in the Royal Navy, 1815-53: Bluejacket

by Graeme Miller

By the close of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Britain had achieved virtual naval ascendancy, but more than twenty years of warfare also served to reveal significant shortcomings, both in terms of the Royal Navy'e(tm)s composition, as well as its ability to effectively realize and maintain manpower requirements over the long term. A reliance on coercive forms of recruitment such as the practice of impressment, in addition to a potentially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472436350
• ISBN13: 9781472436351
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 223 Pages