History Of The Families Of Larcom Hollis And Mckinley

Author : Montagu Burrows
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332827247
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book History of the Families of Larcom, Hollis, and McKinley (Classic Reprint) written by Montagu Burrows and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Families of Larcom, Hollis, and McKinley Navy as those of Portsmouth itself, but the country sur rounding which was still the country, exhibiting the rural features of the county of Hants in a manner very different from anything which could be found in the immediate neighbourhood of busy Portsmouth. That place was far more than at present the one great dockyard and arsenal of England, occupying much the same position as Brest, before Louis XIV called into existence, as its coadjutors, Toulon and Rochefort. Gosport was the favourite residence of retired admirals, captains, and lieutenants, men generally of humble means, but full of noble traditions, who rejoiced in spending the evening of their days in close proximity to the old wooden hulks of which they themselves had once been the pride, and amidst the incessant going and coming of the fleets in which their sons and grandsons were embarked. Who shall say how much of the spirit which has made Eng land what it is, was generated and perpetuated in such a focus of honest patriotism, just as it was in the Middle Ages at the Cinque Ports, in Elizabethan times at the ports of Devon, and in the days of the Stuarts at Lowestoft and Harwich! How well I remember as a child walking on the Gosport ramparts - the 'lines as they were called - with the ancient ladies of the Larcom kin, and listening with delighted ears to their simple stories of the naval members of the family whose lives still formed the chief subject of their affectionate recollections. It was but a type of what those 'lines' had often witnessed in many previous genera tions, - Britannia, as the elaborate illustrations of the old naval histories loved to represent her, pointing out with ex pressive gesture the pictured deeds of heroes to the glistening eye of youth. There is a special interest in the career of our family heroes independent of their blood and their connection. They all came into the world either just before, or just after, the great Peace of Paris in 1763, by which, after the struggles of twenty-four years with France and Spain, the right of Great Britain to her Modern Empire was signed and sealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.