When I went to school they taught us the heavy pieces on the chess-board of British history, including Captain Cook, who fed his men on vile-tasting rotting vegetables to prevent them getting scurby. Who refused got a whipping, for their own benefit!
They taught us how the Navy sometimes resorted to recruiting men onto warships: if a shilling didn't work, then a clobbering and off to the waiting ship in a rowing boat.
