If you have any questions about any of the historical background of the book, feel free to comment or e-mail me! I love talking about this stuff. This is a partial bibliography with just some of my most heavily used sources.
- The prizes of war : the naval prize system in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815 by J. R. Hill.
- Every Man Will Do His Duty: An Anthology of Firsthand Accounts from the Age of Nelson. Dean King with John B. Hattendorf, Editors.
- Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748–1857, 2nd ed., by Amy Miller.
- Scientific Instruments 1500–1900: An Introduction, by Gerard L’E Turner.
- The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815 by N. A. M. Rodger.
- Alexander’s Hebrew Ritual and Doctrinal Explanation of the Whole Ceremonial Law, Oral and Traditional, of the Jewish Community in England and Foreign Parts by Levy Alexander (1819).
- The Illustrated Companion to Nelson’s Navy by Nicholas Blake and Richard Lawrence.
- The Royal Navy and Anglo-Jewry 1740–1820: Traders and those who served, by Geoffrey L. Green.
- “The Portsmouth Community and its Historical Background” and The Rise of Provincial Jewry by Cecil Roth.
- A Social History of British Naval Officers, 1775–1815, by Evan Wilson.
- The Statutes relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Shipping, and Navigation of the United Kingdom from 9 Hen. III. to 3 Geo. IV. inclusive, with Notes, collected and arranged, under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, by John Raithby, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq., Barrister at Law (1823).
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