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Letters of seamen in the wars with France, 1793-1815

机译：在与法国的战争中海员的信，1793-1815年

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Naval historians of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era have no difficulty in learning what senior officers thought about particular events or topics. Nelson, Collingwood, Keith, St Vincent, Saumarez, Hood, Markham, and Barham all have volumes of letters, both official and private, published by the Navy Records Society, and many others have Victorian biographies with extensive transcriptions of their correspondence. We are overflowing with letters of senior officers in the wars with France. We are not, however, overflowing with letters of ordinary sailors in the wars with France. As Helen Watt and Anne Hawkins demonstrate in their valuable volume, we probably should be: they estimate that nearly two-thirds of the lower deck were literate, and if sailors wrote home at a rate of about four or five letters per year (an estimate they derive from the letters in their collection), then there should be literally millions of letters from seamen. There are not, of course, in large part because most have not survived. Watt and Hawkins have therefore done a service to the historians of the period by uncovering and transcribing 255 letters.
机译：法国革命和拿破仑时代的海军历史学家毫不费力地了解高级军官对特定事件或话题的看法。纳尔逊（Nelson），科林伍德（Collingwood），基思（Keith），圣文森特（St Vincent），索马里兹（Saumarez），胡德（Hood），马克汉姆（Markham）和巴尔汉姆（Barham）都有海军记录协会出版的大量正式和私人信件，许多其他维多利亚女王传记也有大量对应记载。在与法国的战争中，我们到处都是高级官员的信。但是，在与法国的战争中，我们不会充斥普通水手的来信。正如海伦·瓦特（Helen Watt）和安妮·霍金斯（Anne Hawkins）所展示的那样，我们大概应该是：他们估计下层甲板的近三分之二是有文化的，并且如果水手们每年以大约四或五个字母的速度写信回家（估计他们从他们收集的信件中提取），那么从字面上看，海员应该收到数百万封信件。当然，这在很大程度上不是因为大多数人还没有幸存下来。因此，瓦特和霍金斯通过发现和抄写255个字母来为那个时期的历史学家服务。

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