Kings and Emperors: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
Feb 2015 · Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures Book 21 · Macmillan
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In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of peaceful Portugal and his so-called collaborative march into Spain change everything, freeing Sapphire to roam against the King's enemies once more!
As kings are overthrown and popular uprisings break out all across Spain, Lewrie's right back in the action, ferrying weapons to arm Spanish patriots, scouting within close gun range of the impregnable fort of Ceuta, escorting the advance units of British expeditionary armies to aid the Spanish, and even going ashore to witness the first battles between Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon's best Marshals, as the long Peninsular War that broke Imperial France begins to unfold.
From Cáadiz to La Coruñna, Lewrie and Sapphire will be there as history explodes!
As kings are overthrown and popular uprisings break out all across Spain, Lewrie's right back in the action, ferrying weapons to arm Spanish patriots, scouting within close gun range of the impregnable fort of Ceuta, escorting the advance units of British expeditionary armies to aid the Spanish, and even going ashore to witness the first battles between Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon's best Marshals, as the long Peninsular War that broke Imperial France begins to unfold.
From Cáadiz to La Coruñna, Lewrie and Sapphire will be there as history explodes!
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Leonard Kurland
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December 10, 2017
I have read most of Mr. Lambdin's (21 of 24) and found all of them quite enjoyable. The only small point I find is that the name of a French general was spelled DuPont. I was stationed on USS DuPont (DD-941) the namesake of Civil War Adm. Samuel F. DuPont. In the biography in is stated that he was the first to write the name DuPont. Previously the name was written in the French manner du Pont de Nemors. The now Dupont Company.
About the author
Dewey Lambdin is the author of over twenty Alan Lewrie novels, which begin with The King’s Coat and span the years of the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. A member of the U.S. Naval Institute and a Friend of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, he spends his free time working and sailing on a rather tatty old sloop. He makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee.
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