Royal Australian Navy

British fleet, Captain Barclay. Commodore Perry would go to the captain’s cabin and spend time with him and by doing that came a warm friendship between once the two enemies. After Barclay was fully healed he asked for a favor from the secretary of the navy to be able to return to his homeland. Captain Barclay was giving a speech a couple short months later and gave a toast to Commodore Perry and which everybody applauded. Barclay then lead on to tell the tallies from the battle that read that…

1776 by David McCullough gives the reader a well rounded perspective about what was happening in both Washington’s Army and Howe’s army, showing that there are always two sides to a story. The book changes the point of view every few chapters. It is more focused on the military aspects and tactics. We learn about King George and what he thought about the colonies. The King anounces to parliament that England was going war to fight the rebellion in the colonies. There was some debate in…

From the 18th century to part of the 19th century, the nation of China had a great sense of pride as well as dislike for outsiders. The dislike of foreigners stemmed from the belief that China was the most superior culture in existence. Chinese culture was based off of Confucian theory at the time. This directly influenced the events leading up to the First Opium War. Once western traders arrived in China for the first time, foreign ideas infiltrated China and began to change the ways of life.…

Young Yorktown The battle of Yorktown is a battle like no other. The battle is the battle that finally won the colonists freedom. There are many important things to know about the battle of Yorktown like who were the leaders of both sides who won. The war and what were the outcomes of the war. This piece will tell you all about that and help you learn more about the battle of Yorktown. Proud people (Notice in this picture how George Washington is on his horse and the…

After a while Kidd left and sailed for New York. In New York he was able to remove an illegitimate government from power and gain some respect amongst the new york merchants. He married a wealthy widow and started to dream up the idea of being a Royal Navy ship captain. He then got a letter of recommendation from a high ranking new york resident Captain Kidd settled for the position of a privateer and was backed by the King of England as well as some of the most powerful men in England to…

become the most powerful country. By 1808 Napoleon and France controls most of Europe. Napoleon conquered most of Europe, and wore out the Austrians, Prussians, and the Russians, but was not able to defeat Great Britain. Great Britain had a powerful navy, while the French was stronger on land. Due to the fact Napoleon could not defeat Great Britain, he ordered…

forbidding the signing of the "no opium trade" bond. The captain negotiated with the governor of Canton and hoped that all British ships could drop off their goods at Chuenpee. Fighting commenced on 3 November 1839, when a second British ship, the Royal Saxon, endeavoured to sail to…

It was seventeen hundred and forty eight in the year of our lord, when silver waves of purpose and determination collided into the jagged, rocky bluffs of Edisto Island. The salty spray had little time to dissipate before the next thundering crash pounded into its levying boarders. And with the rolling of the tide came three demanding ships. Occupied by three hundred souls per vessel. Nine hundred men with a cause and mission. The serenity of peaceful blue skies garnished by flights of seagulls…

The sound of drunken laughter and the lively tune of the cabin boy’s fiddle mixed with the whistle of the wind and the harsh wail of seagulls filled the decks of the Blue Anne. It was the finest night the crew had seen in three moon cycles, so a bit of drinking seemed inevitable. Boots pounding against the salt weathered wood while bottles of ale clinked in celebration. A few of the completely intoxicated men had taken to dancing a merry jig around the perimeter of the ship, while others…

When Captain Amasa Delano visits the San Dominick he notices the tension between Babo and Don Benito Cereno while Babo is shaving Benito Cereno’s beard, “not unaffected by the close right of the gleaming steel, Don Benito nervously shuddered” (Melville 74). The tension between Babo and Cereno is ironic because Captain Delano does not understand what is actually going on between the two characters, creating tension between Captain Delano and the ship as a whole. Babo appears as the servant…