Robert Leighton

The Golden Galleon (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this present amphibious story I have tried to represent some of the conditions of life ashore and afloat in the glorious days of Queen Elizabeth; but I must state, to begin with, that the only portion of the narrative that is actually based upon historical fact is the account of Lord Thomas Howard's expedition against the West Indian treasure-ships. In this part of the story I have closely followed the original report of the last fight of The Revenge, as it was written by Sir Walter Raleigh some few weeks after the battle. My friend Commander C. N. Robinson tells me that Sir Richard Grenville's disregard of Admiral Howard's instructions was, strictly speaking, a breach of discipline. Whether or not this was the case need not here be discussed. All that we need remember just now is that Sir Richard was one of the bravest of the many brave men of his splendid time, and that, undismayed by the almost certain prospect of defeat, he led a forlorn hope, plunged into the glorious fray, and fought to the death with a boldness which has never been excelled in all the course of our naval history. Grenville was not a great admiral as Drake and Nelson were great, and this most memorable action upon which his fame must always rest was not an example[Pg 6] of the supremest heroism, simply because his success or failure involved no high or very noble principle. But the worst that can be said of his daring exploit is that it was the Balaclava charge of the Spanish war; at its best it was an example, and a very grand example, of that British pluck and intrepidity which have ever been the distinguishing characteristics of our fighting countrymen; and I shall be glad if, in writing this story, I help in some measure to instil into my young readers a fuller pride in the navy which has secured for England her supremacy upon the seas. ROBERT LEIGHTON.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: anboco
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783736410329
• Artikelnr.: 45547811

Autorenporträt

Scottish journalist, editor, and writer of boys' fiction, Robert Leighton. He worked as an editor of children's magazines at Young Folks, where he first met his future wife Marie Connor, who is also a successful novelist. Leighton became an authority on caring for dogs and wrote numerous works on the topic. Robert Leighton, a Scottish journalist, editor, and writer of boys' fiction, lived from 5 June 1858 to 11 May 1934. He was born in the Scottish town of Ayr to poet Robert Leighton and Elizabeth Jane Campbell. He received his education at the Liverpool school connected to the Hope Street Unitarian Chapel, and at the age of 14, he started his career as a journalist. In 1879, he relocated to London and started working as an assistant editor for Young People magazine. He met Marie Connor, his future wife and another successful novelist, through his job at Young People. Leighton became an authority on caring for dogs and wrote numerous volumes on the subject. Leighton and Marie Connor got married at Marylebone in the first quarter of 1889 after they eloped in 1889. Leighton served as the Daily Mail's literary editor from 1896 to 1899, Marie was a seasoned novelist. They had four children. According to his daughter, Leighton loved his wife and treated her with a kind of adoring paternal attitude.