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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Nelson admired him. Marie-Antoinette counted him among France’s national heroes. The exiled Napoleon sighed for what might have been had his own navy been commanded by someone of like calibre. His lascar sailors feared him as much as they admired him and nicknamed him ‘Admiral Satan’. In an age of remarkable characters Pierre-Andr? de Suffren Saint Tropez the Bailli de Suffren was one of the most remarkable: eccentric irascible slovenly gluttonous possessed of furious energy and lust for battle. He was also the most daring innovative tactician in France’s pre-revolutionary navy. Suffren began his naval career in the service of the Knights of Malta protecting the Order’s shipping against the corsairs of the Barbary coast. Then began the long slow climb through the ranks of the pre- revolutionary French navy during which he saw action in the West Indies ran the blockade during the American war of independence and was twice taken prisoner by the British whom he hated ever after.