We now come to Richard Ramsay Armstrong's service in the Crimea. RRA h

My favourite three books about the slave trade are as follows. The first is about the whole history of the Atlantic trade; the other two are specifically about the Royal Navy's part in the suppression. The links go to the books in the database at...

On page 109 is the following passage:W

On page 107, RRA mentions the British Consul for the Bights of Biafra and Benin, one John Beecroft.Beecroft was a man of some mystery. He was born at Sleights near Whitby on the east coast of Yorkshire in 1790, and his baptismal record is dated 2 May...

I have made a silly mistake with the identification of one of