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A naval officer recounts his career from a boy midshipman through service during the wars of the early nineteenth century, providing a mix of memoir, shipboard routine, and combat recollection. The account moves between daily life aboard ships—discipline, camaraderie, pranks, and duties—and episodes of cruising, boat expeditions, and naval actions, supplemented by personal anecdotes about commanders and shipmates and reflections on the hardships and small incidents that shaped life at sea between 1799 and 1815.

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Title: Personal Narrative of Events, From 1799 to 1815

Author: William Stanhope Lovell

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PERSONAL NARRATIVE
OF EVENTS,

From 1799 to 1815,

WITH ANECDOTES.

BY THE LATE

VICE-ADML. WM. STANHOPE LOVELL, R.N., K.H.

SECOND EDITION.

London:
WM. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, W.

1879.

WITHERBY AND CO., PRINTERS,
74, CORNHILL; NEWMAN’S COURT, CORNHILL; AND 325A, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.

To Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie, C.B., K.C.H.

My dear Sir Robert,

In dedicating the following pages to you, under whose command I had the honour of serving in the Chesapeake, &c., I do it with the greatest respect, esteem, and admiration of your conduct.

I must ever consider you as one of those officers upon whom the country may safely rely in the hour of peril, and in whose hands it may entrust its honour in the day of battle. Like the celebrated Bayard of old, your career has obtained for you a character, “sans peur et sans reproche.”

Your faithful friend,

THE AUTHOR.