John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce’s old
Lieutenant John Pearce is in London seeking protection for his friends, the Pelicans, from a reluctant Admiralty. Sat in the Pelican Tavern where they were first press-ganged, he wonders what future h
After two of his men are impressed into His Majesty's Navy, high-seas smuggler John Pierce and his friend Michael O'Hagan attempt to rescue the two men from the ship of Pierce's old adversary, Ralph B
1796. Pearce and his wife Emily are in living in Bath, when Minister of WarHenry Dundas turns up and suggests a second mission to the Vendee, this timeas a liaison between the French emigres intending
John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce’s old
John Pearce is going home. But he has to avoid capture by an Algerine warship, having his Pelicans pressed into a British frigate and that’s before they are at risk of being hanged for desertion once
1796. Pearce and his wife Emily are in living in Bath, when Minister of War Henry Dundas turns up and suggests a second mission to the Vendee, this time as a liaison between the French emigres intendi
