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The enterprising admiral : the personal fortune of Admiral Sir Peter Warren by Julian Gwyn is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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The financial impact of war in the eighteenth century upon the corps of naval officers has not been systematically studied. Nor have the opportunities of a naval career to exploit such sidelines as trade, money-lending, and land purchases in the colonies, where officers spent much of their time, been looked at carefully. The present study analyses in detail the fortune of a single naval officer, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, whose principal wealth came from prize money: the capture of enemy vessels
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julian Gwyn
- Publisher
- Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780773582255
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Economics, Finance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25