Gallant John Barry
1745‑1803

The Story of a Naval Hero of Two Wars

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William Bell Clark

 p. xi  Contents

 [p. xiii]  Illustrations

Technical Details

Edition Used

The edition followed in this transcription was that of my own copy of the book, © The Macmillan Company 1938, New York. That American copyright was not renewed in 1965 or 1966 as then required by law in order to be maintained. The work is thus in the public domain; details here on the copyright law involved.

Pagination and Local Links

For citation and indexing purposes, the pagination is shown in the right margin of the text at the page turns (like at the end of this line); p57  these are also local anchors. Sticklers for total accuracy will of course find the anchor at its exact place in the sourcecode.

In addition, I've inserted a number of other local anchors: whatever links might be required to accommodate the author's own cross-references, as well as a few others for my own purposes. If in turn you have a website and would like to target a link to some specific passage of the text, please let me know: I'll be glad to insert a local anchor there as well.

Proofreading

As almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it — not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if success­ful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.)

My transcription has been minutely proofread. In the table of contents above, the sections are shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme.

The printed book was remarkably well proofread, with very few typographical errors, of which an even smaller set required a footnote; but most of them trivial, and therefore marked only by a dotted underscore like this: as elsewhere on my site, glide your cursor over the bullet or the underscored words to read what was actually printed. Similarly, underscored measurements provide conversions to metric, e.g., 10 miles. Distances in miles at sea, however, are in universally used and understood nautical miles, and I haven't converted them.

The book contains a great number of odd spellings and curious turns of phrase, almost all of them due to John Barry himself and other 18c and early-19c sources: scrupulously — and if truth be told, often needlessly and glee­fully — reproduced by the author. I've marked some of the more unusual spellings <!‑‑ sic  in the sourcecode, just to confirm that they were checked; some few, either even more unusual or likely to be misunderstood or attributed to sloppy transcription on my part, I've marked with a note visible on the webpage, like this;º but, far more often than not, I've let them stand without any annotation anywhere: they will be obvious to the reader after a very few pages.

Any over­looked mistakes, please drop me a line, of course: especially if you have a copy of the printed book in front of you.

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