Naval courts martial . to c NAVALCOURTS MARTIAL byDAVID HANNAY Cambridge; at the University Press 1914 PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, THE UNIVERSITY PRESS PREFACE I HE purpose of this book is to make, from the re-ports of Courts Martial, some picture of what theold Navy was down to the end of the Napoleonic reports are preserved in the Admiralty papers,Secretarys In-Letters beginning with volume 5253and the year 1680, on to volume 5452 and the year1815 inclusive. The series does not stop at volume5452, and there was of course no sudden change in theNavy at the beginning of 1816. Yet t

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Naval courts martial . to c NAVALCOURTS MARTIAL byDAVID HANNAY Cambridge; at the University Press 1914 PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, THE UNIVERSITY PRESS PREFACE I HE purpose of this book is to make, from the re-ports of Courts Martial, some picture of what theold Navy was down to the end of the Napoleonic reports are preserved in the Admiralty papers,Secretarys In-Letters beginning with volume 5253and the year 1680, on to volume 5452 and the year1815 inclusive. The series does not stop at volume5452, and there was of course no sudden change in theNavy at the beginning of 1816. Yet the signing of thesecond Peace of Paris marks the end of an epoch, andfrom it is to be dated the beginning of a new world. Earlier statements of the mere fact that trials hadbeen held and sentences given are to be found inState Papers, and such journals of officers of the timeas have been preserved. But these notices are of novalue for our purpose. We need the testimony of thewitnesses given in what at least professes tnavalcourtsmarti00hann

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