Leon Hopkins, The Pirate who Stole Scotland. William Dampier, and the Creation of the United Kingdom by Louis Arthur Norton

The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord providing clarification, concerning ambiguous subjects, as well as additional reading to provide readers with resources to obtain additional background.The examination of how the details of these events changed as researchers learned more, illustrate that the accounts of these battles, and how they were discussed was somewhat fluid, at the time the initial accounts were being written.In selecting the battles of Midway, Coral Sea, Java Sea, Guadalcanal, and Leyte Gulf, Grehan uses Admiralty accounts to highlight some of the most pivotal battles in the Pacific during the Second World War.Readers are able to reexamine events without the benefit -or complication -of seventy-five years of subsequent research.The original documents may not be readily accessible to all, thus offering an interesting and fresh look at key events and opportunity for future study.Admiralty reports offer a fresh resource for examining other sea battles and engagements.