6/3/2023 0 Comments Victory by susan cooperGradually, Molly realizes that Sam is trying to tell her something. Behind its split cover she discovers a hidden message and a precious relic of Nelson’s funeral, a scrap of the Victory‘s flag, which once belonged to Sam. Then she finds an old copy of Robert Southey’s Life of Nelson. Like Sam, she too struggles against home-sickness and an alien lifestyle. Sam’s story is intertwined with that of the 21st century Molly Jennings, who must leave her beloved London for the USA when her widowed mother marries an American. Meanwhile, Nelson is searching for the French Navy, a chase which will end in the bloody and decisive battle of Trafalgar where Sam has a pivotal part to play. Sam eventually becomes a ‘powder-monkey’, carrying gunpowder to fire the cannons and one of the ship’s most dangerous jobs. But there is kindness and fellowship on board as well as cruelty and hardship. There, he must cope with rats, disgusting food, and a sadistic officer who is waiting for the chance to have him flogged. In 1805, Sam Robbins, an eleven-year-old farm boy, is press-ganged into the Navy and finds himself on board Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory.
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