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Author : Brian Tunstall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Admiral Byng and the Loss of Minorca written by Brian Tunstall and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggs Bros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph J. Krulder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000381188
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Joseph J. Krulder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to 'encourage the others'. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval history. Asking 'what was Britain like the moment Byng returned to Portsmouth after the Battle of Minorca (1756)?' not only returns a glimpse of mid-eighteenth century Britain but provides a deeper understanding of how a wartime admiral, the son of a peer, of some wealth, a once colonial governor, and sitting member of parliament came to be scapegoated and then executed for the failings of others. This manuscript presents a cultural, social, and political dive into Britain at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Part 1 focuses on ballad, newspaper, and prize culture. Part 2 makes a turn towards the social where religion, morality, rioting, and disease play into the Byng saga. Admiral Byng's record during the 1755 Channel Campaign is explored, as is the Mediterranean context of the Seven Years' War, troubles elsewhere in the empire, and then the politics behind Byng's trial and execution.
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Author : John Russell (1st earl.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book History of the principal states of Europe from the Peace of Utrecht [by J. Russell]. written by John Russell (1st earl.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Ware
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 9781844157815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Admiral Byng written by Chris Ware and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long overdue reappraisal, Chris Ware looks at the whole of Byng's long career and carefully untangles the politics usrrounding is final day sto see how far his poor reputation is justified.
Author : M. John Cardwell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719066184
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Arts and Arms written by M. John Cardwell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protagonists featured include: William Pitt; Henry Fox; the Duke of Newcastle; Lord Bute; George II and III; and Britain's ally Frederick II of Prussia. By placing literary works in a close political context they test the accuracy of the information conveyed against the correspondence and memoirs of politicians and parliamentary debates. The degree to which literature not only recorded, but also helped to shape political attitudes, is explored by its interaction with these and other expressions of opinion, such as popular protest and extra-parliamentary initiatives.
Author : David Hume
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Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The History of England written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399002899
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Anson's Navy written by Brian Lavery and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a supreme belief in itself, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share of disasters and miscarriages including the devastating sickness in Admiral Hosier’s fleet in 1727; failure at Cartagena, and an embarrassing action off Toulon in 1744\. Anson’s great circumnavigation, though presented as a triumph, was achieved at huge cost in ships and lives. And in 1756 Admiral Byng was shot after failure off Minorca. In this new book, the bestselling author Brian Lavery shows how, through reforms and the determined focus of a number of personalities, that navy was transformed in the middle years of the eighteenth century. The tide had already begun to turn with victories off Cape Finisterre in 1747, and in 1759 the navy played a vital part in the ‘year of victories’ with triumphs at Lagos and Quiberon Bay; and it conducted amphibious operations as far afield as Cuba and the Philippines, and took Quebec. The author explains how it was fundamentally transformed from the amateurish, corrupt and complacent force of the previous decades. He describes how it acquired uniforms and a definite rank structure for officers; and developed new ship types such as the 74 and the frigate. It instigated a more efficient (if equally brutal) method of recruiting seamen, and boosted morale and motivation and a far more aggressive style of fighting. The coppering of ships’ hulls and the solving of the problems associated with longitude and scurvy, were also hugely significant steps. Much of this transformation was due to the forceful if enigmatic personality of George, Lord Anson. In a largely static society, he changed the navy so that it was fit for purpose, and in readiness for Nelson just decades later. Using a mass of archival evidence and a mix of official reports and personal reminiscences, this book offers a fascinating and engrossing analysis of all these far-reaching reforms, which in turn led to the radical transformation of Britain’s navy into a truly global force. The consequential effect on the world’s history would be huge.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Journals of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggs Bros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Nautica written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Banister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108168884
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815 written by Julia Banister and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing together representations of military men and accounts of court martial proceedings, this book examines eighteenth-century arguments about masculinity and those that appealed to the 'naturally' sexed body and construed masculinity as social construction and performance. Julia Banister's discussion draws on a range of printed materials, including canonical literary and philosophical texts by David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole and Jane Austen, and texts relating to the naval trials of, amongst others, Admiral John Byng. By mapping eighteenth-century ideas about militarism, including professionalism and heroism, alongside broader cultural concerns with politeness, sensibility, the Gothic past and celebrity, Julia Banister reveals how ideas about masculinity and militarism were shaped by and within eighteenth-century culture.
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Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728237
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book A History of the Royal Navy written by Martin Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was the first global conflict and became the key factor in creating the British Empire. This book looks at Britain's maritime strategic, operational and tactical success (and failures), through a wide-ranging history of the Royal Navy's role in the war. By the end of the war in 1763 Britain was by no means a hegemonic power, but it was the only state capable of sustained global power projection on a global scale. Key to Britain's success was political and strategic direction from London, through the war planning of Pitt the Elder and the successful implementation of his policies by a stellar cast of naval and military leaders at an operational and tactical level. Martin Robson highlights the work of some of the key protagonists in the Royal Navy, such as Admiral Hawke whose appreciation of the wider strategic context at Quiberon Bay in 1759 decided the fate of North America, but he also provides insights into the experience of life in the lower decks at this time. Robson ultimately shows that the creation, containment and expansion of the British Empire was made possible by the exercise of maritime power through the Royal Navy.
Author : Tobias Smollett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Borrow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence from the Earliest Records to the Year 1825 written by George Borrow and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggs Bros
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book ... Books, Prints and Manuscripts Relating to Naval Battles written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Edwards (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Edwards's Military Catalogue written by Francis Edwards (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
