The curse of the Somers : the secret history behind the U.S. Navy's most infamous mutiny /

"The greatest scandal in the nineteenth-century U.S. Navy, the “Somers Affair” occupied the national press for nearly a year. Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, captain of the Somers, faced a court-martial, with his life at stake if he lost his trial. Mackenzie stood accused of murder on the high sea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Delgado, James P. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Somers (Destroyer : DD-381) > History. United States. > Navy > History. Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Billy Budd. Somers (Destroyer : DD-381) United States. > Navy Billy Budd (Melville, Herman) Somers Mutiny, 1842. United States > History > 1815-1861. États-Unis > Histoire > 1815-1861. United States 1815-1861 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: First of December 1842
Philip Spencer
An unlucky ship
A sailor's life for me
A fatal cruise
A hanging
Controversy and inquiry
"Damn bad luck fellows"
Legacies.