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The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750–1829. By Gordon S. Brown. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 200. $28.95.)

Tim Lanzendörfer

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A large number of biographies of US Navy officers of the age of sail have recently seen publication. Gordon S. Brown has now written the life of one of the more obscure figures in the navy's early ...

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6563.2012.00334_6.x