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[rexluscus]

I'm fascinated by what might have happened to Norrington as a consequence of letting Jack walk away. Courts-martial do indeed pop up occasionally in POTC fic, so I thought I'd share with you a resource I've been using for what I'm writing. It's a book published in 1851, but given how conservative the Navy seems to have been (in my limited reading

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[justawench]

There's a lot of information contained in those links - Thanks!

[rexluscus]

NP! It's almost *too* much information - it takes some sifting through. :)

[johnnypenn]

That's why Norrington turned in his resignation, right?
Though I doubt that was a legitamate way of getting out of the Navey. I don't know, but when I read Hornblower, I get the sense that you have to go through with the Court-Marshal and hope to God that they find you innocent.

[rexluscus]

I don't think they ever say whether he resigned before or after he could be court-martialed. Or maybe the Governor was just using 'resignation' as a euphemism for 'cashiered'.

[johnnypenn]

Possibly.
I don't know, that whole thing is rather confusing.