Full name: The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

Author: David Cordingly Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582344683 9781582341934 158234468X 1582341931

David Cordingly, a leading authority on pirates and maritime history, The Billy Ruffian is the story of a real-life H.M.S. Sophie, named Bellerophon, or Billy Ruffian as her crew called her, barnacles and all. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles. But her crowning glory came six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon, trapped in Rochefort, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years. Packed with letters, pictures, and first-hand accounts, The Billy Ruffian is an enthralling account of sea adventure. Similar books: Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly The Frigates by James Henderson The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy The Command of the Ocean by N. A. M. Rodger Trafalgar by David Howarth Trafalgar by Roy Adkins Decision at Trafalgar by Dudley Pope To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman The Safeguard of the Sea by N. A. M. Rodger Trafalgar by Tim Clayton The Wooden World by N. A. M. Rodger Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw