Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME XII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HON. GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR PETER WARREN, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR NATHANIEL DANCE, KNT. Commander of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Earl Camden, and Commodore of their Fleet homeward-bound from China
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD KING, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR PETER WARREN, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME XII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HON. GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR PETER WARREN, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR NATHANIEL DANCE, KNT. Commander of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Earl Camden, and Commodore of their Fleet homeward-bound from China
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD KING, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
Summary
“ ——— The fury of the savage blast
No more shall rouse them from their bed of clay;
Their weary wanderings and their toils are past,
And all the storms of life are blown away.”
Anon.It has been observed, by certain critics, that the life of an individual, and the history of a country, can never, with any degree of propriety, be blended with each other. This position, however, is true only in part; for, if the individual, whose life is exhibited, have been a public character, if his conduct have been connected with, or influenced by, public events, it necessarily follows, that the history of his life must also, in a measure, be the history of his country during the period in which he lived and acted. Unless the reader be acquainted with the motives of his hero, how is he to enter into the spirit of his enterprises? How can his atchievements interest, unless we are enabled to comprehend and appreciate their object? – The most brilliant actions, if not connected by something like historical narrative, can appear but as a chaos, or as a variety of vivid colours thrown indiscriminately upon canvas, without form or consistency.
We have premised these remarks, in order that, while we are relating the particular actions of the late Sir Peter Warren, we may be permitted, uncensured, to take a cursory view of naval transactions in general, during the period in which he had the honour to command under the British Flag.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 257 - 344Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1805