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Rocks & Shoals: Naval Discipline in the Age of Fighting Sail (Bluejacket Books)

paperback – January 1, 1996
by Valle, James E.
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ISBN-13: 9781557508799 ISBN-10: 1557508798
Publisher
US Naval Institute Press
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1996
Weight
1.2 lbs
Dimensions
24.10×2.50×15.20 cm

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Rocks & Shoals: Naval Discipline in the Age of Fighting Sail (Bluejacket Books) by Valle, James E.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781557508799.

Using a wealth of material from old logbooks and diaries along with verbatim transcripts of general courts-martial and courts of inquiry, author James E. Valle paints a dramatic and highly instructive picture of the justice system in the U.S. Navy between 1800 and 1861 - a period when almost as many naval officers died in duels as in combat, and when spitting on the berth deck brought the bloody lash down six times.