Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Year 1783 to 1836, Vol. 1 of 2 It would have added much to my satisfaction, could I have named in the following pages every individual whose services have merited distinction: but that being impossible, I have confined myself to the facts most prominent in our great and eventful struggle for national existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.