Re: [Carib] Nelson's Caribbean Hell-hole: An Eighteenth Century NavyGraveyard

[Chris Codrington]

Thanks Nivard........"darkest chapters of Britains Imperial Past" jeez god
forbid they should strike too dramatic a tone....get out the
cudgels...there's money to be made!
Cod

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This was posted to the Mariners list but am sure many here will find it
interesting

Interesting also that it is briefly set on Bettys Hope a Plantation I
understand founded in the mid 1600's and owned from 1674 by Christopher
CODRINGTON

Nelson's Caribbean Hell-hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard

Human bones found on an idyllic beach in Antigua trigger an
investigation by naval historian Sam Willis into one of the darkest
chapters of Britain's imperial past. As archaeologists excavate a mass
grave of British sailors, Willis explores Antigua's ruins and discovers
how the sugar islands of the Caribbean were a kind of hell in the age of
Nelson.

Sun, sea, war, tropical diseases and poisoned rum.


Available on BBC iplayer (for UK)
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01s6gjx/Nelsons_Caribbean_Hellhole_An
_Eighteenth_Century_Navy_Graveyard_Uncovered/>

And utube
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmS1qnhb1RM>


Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)
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[Nivard Ovington]

Quite so Cod

As usual with this sort of program (I won't give it the title
documentary) there are lots of assumptions, much guess work and attempts
to jazz up the story line

Personally I would rather see a half hour of useful factual information
than the spread out Catherine Cookson versions we have pushed our way

However it was interesting to get some views of the island and some of
the information given was useful in a general sense

A little more factual information would not have gone amiss and a little
less guesswork

Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)