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

'The Curse of the Somers' retells the greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic, a plotted mutiny by the son of the Secretary of War. Acknowledged as the only mutiny in the Navy's history, the events on the Somers inspired countless headlines...

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Main Author: Delgado, James P. (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Scholarship Online
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white).
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891. -- Billy Budd.
United States. -- Navy -- History.
Somers (Destroyer : DD-381) -- History.
Somers Mutiny, 1842.
United States -- History -- 1815-1861.
Online Access:Oxford Scholarship online - Click here for access

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