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Majestic is a novel set in the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars as the Royal Navy fights the French for supremacy across the oceans of the world. It continues the career of Midshipman Johnnie Wharton in both great men-of-war and nimble brig-sloops. Wharton is poised for promotion, hastened by the terrible toll suffered by HMS Majestic at Admiral Nelson's great triumph at the Battle of the Nile. Wounded by an exploding cannon, he then takes command of a battery of guns in the decisive battle off Egypt's Aboukir Bay.

The freshly promoted Lieutenant Johnnie Wharton RN, now recovered from the horrors of the Battle of the Nile, is ordered to Plymouth to join the Royal Navy’s newest battleship HMS Ajax as second lieutenant. The endless war at sea continues with the British naval blockade of all French ports and Wharton seems destined to spend the next year or so sailing back and forth opposite Brittany and the Bay of Biscay.

Set course for Trafalgar is a novel based on the extraordinary true naval career of Irish sailor Amos Freeman Westropp, during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars. He served in Nelson’s Royal Navy for over 30 years in a dozen ships and fought in some of the great sea battles of the time against the French, Dutch and Spanish fleets. All the events portrayed in the book took place and the ships and naval officers mentioned were real, including Westropp’s meetings and time spent with the leading naval leaders of his time, including Admiral Lord Nelson and the French Commander-in-...

King Charles 1 is dead and still the English Civil War blights parts of England. Cornet Mountifort Westropp of Colonel Twisleton’s Regiment of Horse is called upon again, this time to quell the Leveller Mutinies of 1649. The Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell has decided to punish the Catholics and Royalists in Ireland for their atrocities against the English Protestant settlers during the 1641 uprising. Westropp is part of a great invading New Model Army which lands in Dublin to secure Munster for Parliament as a first step to subdue the whole island. The campaign includes capturing Drogheda...

The Honeysucker is a novel based on the true story of the extraordinary military career of the Irish soldier John Westropp as he fought his way across Portugal and Spain against the French in the Peninsula War. Part of the Duke of Wellington’s army, he was in some of the greatest battles of the war – Salamanca Vitoria and the Pyrenees – suffered heat, cold and wounds and near starvation during the swift advances and draining retreats. With the 58th Regiment of Foot – called The Honeysuckers – Westropp next goes to America to fight in the War of 1812 and then back to Europe and to ...

Clear for Action continues the extraordinary true story of the naval career of the Irish sailor Amos Freeman Westropp, during the later stages of the Napoleonic Wars. Clear for Action covers Westropp’s adventures from Ireland to Denmark, France, the South Atlantic, the West Indies and West Africa. Prize money was the only way a sea officer could acquire wealth and his many captures of enemy ships certainly ensured that. All the events portrayed in the novel took place and the ships and naval officers mentioned are real, including his meetings with the Duke of Wellington and the Emperor ...

Midshipman Johnnie Wharton has no idea when he joins HMS St George as a 12-year-old that he is soon to take part in some of the greatest sea battles of Nelsons Royal Navy. Life aboard his next ship HMS Gibraltar is tough for the youngster and he and the other officers face disgrace as his Captain blunders badly at the Battle of the Glorious First of June.

The Cork Captain follows the career of the fighting soldier Michael Roberts Westropp through turbulent times in Ireland, the West Indies and the start of the American War of Independence. He turns his back on a life in the counting house of his father’s business in Cork and enlists as an ensign in the 18th Regiment of Foot and is soon faced with the Whiteboys rebellion in the West of Ireland. Ensign Westropp is next posted to the West Indies to secure the valuable islands from French attack while there is unease from slave revolts and the perils of yellow fever decimating the ranks of his...

In 1616, a rich orphan is sent far away to school, where he is seduced by an older woman as part of a plot by her family to steal his fortune. The boy goes to the highest court in the land seeking to clear his name and save his inheritance. It causes a national scandal.