Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck

Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck
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Download or read book Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck written by Samuel Leech and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of Samuel Leech, a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. Leech's nautical career began in 1810, at the age of thirteen, when Lord William FitzRoy agreed to take Samuel into his frigate HMS Macedonian, as a favor to FitzRoy's sister Frances, the wife of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, Leech being the son of one of her servants.


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