Albert C E ParkerAlbert Parker earned his PhD in history at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri. During a career as a sample survey research professional, he pursued naval history as an avocation. He has been investigating the naval campaigns of 1739-48 for ove 20 years. He is also the author of essays on Bourbon seaborne support for the 1745 Jacobite uprising in Scotland and on Spanish naval operations, 1732-1750 that will be published in forthcoming Helion collections, and of a pending study of naval operations in the Russo-Swedish War of 1741-43. Read More Read Less