Ensign Royal

by J. D. Davies

Overview

A rip-roaring historical novella, set four years before Gentleman Captain

Matthew Quinton, eighteen years old and an ensign in the Royalist Army in exile, is sent by his older brother the Earl of Ravensden into the heart of Oliver Cromwell’s England. Surrounded by enemies, he soon becomes tangled in a dark web of conspiracy…

Before long Quinton will have his first bloody taste of war, in the Battle of the Dunes, June 1658. In the battle Roundheads and Royalists will fight one another one final time…

Ensign Royal will appeal to fans of C. S. Forester and Alexander Kent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788631891
Publisher:	Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	05/07/2018
Series:	The Matthew Quinton Journals , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	610,256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

J. D. Davies is the prolific author of historical naval adventures. He is also one of the foremost authorities on the seventeenth-century navy, which brings a high level of historical detail to his fiction, namely his Matthew Quinton series. He has written widely on the subject, most recently Kings of the Sea: Charles II, James II and the Royal Navy, and won the Samuel Pepys Award in 2009 with Pepys’s Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare, 1649-1689.