Captain Charles John Moore Mansfield (1760-1813) was a British naval officer who served in the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Unlike many of his dashing companions of this period, Mansfield is notable for his reticent social life which contrasted sharply with his dashing and action-filled military career.
Read more about Charles John Moore Mansfield: Early Life, American Revolutionary War, Peacetime and Marriage, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, Illness and Death, Further Reading
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“How soon I may ride the whole world about;
And at the third question thou must not shrink,
But tell me here truly what I do think.””
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)
“Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)
“Were we positive, eager, real—alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.”
—Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)