Jester's Fortune: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)

A scheme by the Royal Navy to enroll Serb pirates in fighting the French during the Napoleonic Wars is opposed by Alan Lewrie, captain of a sloop in the Adriatic. But the commander of his squadron goes ahead anyway and the consequences are disastrous, the Serbs taking the opportunity for some ethnic cleansing. By the author of A King's Commander