Admiral Vernon and the Navy

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Certain historians, from Tobias Smollett downwards, have done scant justice to the subject of this memoir, and even the origin of the nickname "Old Grog" has been misrepresented. So far as the author of "Roderick Ra...