Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck
Thirty Years From Home; or, a Voice From the Main Deck

Author: Samuel Leech

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 189

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This book is an autobiography of Samuel Leech, a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. Leech's nautical career began in 1810, at the age of thirteen, when Lord William FitzRoy agreed to take Samuel into his frigate HMS Macedonian, as a favor to FitzRoy's sister Frances, the wife of Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill, Leech being the son of one of her servants.