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Author : John Montagu Earl of Sandwich
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Private Papers of John, Earl of Sandwich written by John Montagu Earl of Sandwich and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G.R. Barnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939189
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Private Papers of John, Earl of Sandwich written by G.R. Barnes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Earl of Sandwich was First Lord of the Admiralty (for the third time in his long career) from 1771 to 1782. Blamed by the Whig opposition for many of the disasters of the American War, he was additionally loaded by 19th-century Whig historians with the false image of a corrupt libertine. It was the publication of these volumes of his correspondence and papers (then in the family home, now in the National Maritime Museum), covering the years 1771 to 1782, which restored his reputation as a conscientious and imaginative naval administrator and reformer, especially of the dockyards and of the timber question. Without entirely rescuing his status as a strategist, they showed very clearly the weaknesses at the heart of the North administration which damaged its handling of the war, and undermined Sandwich’s efforts. A fifth volume intended to cover his handling of naval patronage was overtaken by the war. This volume is from May 1779 to December 1780.
Author : Louis A. Landa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877326
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book English Literature, Volume 1 written by Louis A. Landa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes which will make available in convenient form the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published for the past 25 years in the Philological Quarterly. Volume 1 includes the years 1926-1938. By means of lithography the original issues are exactly reproduced with retention of all critical annotations. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300195249
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Men Who Lost America written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Author : John E. Talbott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135230021
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Pen and Ink Sailor written by John E. Talbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examiner of the Navy and the First Lord of the Admiralty during the Trafalgar Campaign, Sir Charles Middleton was responsible for creating vital links between the naval shore establishment, policy makers in Whitehall and commanders at sea.
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Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book English Literature, 1660-1880: 1926-1938 written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Kirsch
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783469579
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Fireship written by Peter Kirsch and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fireship was the guided missile of the sailing era. Packed with incendiary (and sometimes explosive) material, it was aimed at its highly inflammable wooden target by volunteers who bailed out into a boat at the last moment. It often missed, but the panic it invariably caused among crews who generally could not swim and had no method of safely abandoning ship did the job for it—the most famous example being the attack off Gravelines in 1588 which led to the rout of the Spanish Armada.Although it was a tactic used in antiquity, its successful revival in the Armada campaign led to the adoption of the fireship as an integral part of the fleet. During the seventeenth century increasingly sophisticated 'fireworks' were designed into purpose-built ships, and an advance doctrine was worked out for their employment. Fireship reveals the full impact of the weapon on naval history, looks at the technology and analyses the reasons for its decline.This is the first history of a potent, much used but little understood weapon.
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Total Pages : 592 pages
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Download or read book The Eighteenth Century, 1926-74 written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl B. Cone
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185947
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Burke and the Nature of Politics written by Carl B. Cone and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Burke in recent years has assumed extraordinary stature in American political thinking as the father of neoconservatism. In this book, the first of a two-volume biography of this eighteenth-century English statesman, Mr. Cone brings important new evidence to his thesis that during the age of the American Revolution Burke was significant more as the politician and the party man than as a systematic political philosopher. This volume deals with Burke's career to 1782, when the Marquis of Rockingham, to whom Burke had attached himself seventeen years earlier, stood once again on the threshold of the prime ministership. In this period Burke was the voice—and frequently the behind-the-scenes leader—of the parliamentary opposition to George III, Lord North, and the "King's Friends." Ever since the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766, he and his colleagues had struggled against the government over the great imperial questions of America, India, and Ireland and over the "influence" of the crown in domestic affairs through the patronage of the royal household offices. Mr. Cone stresses the importance of Burke's practical contributions to the art of government. By his partisan activities, his leadership in parliament, and his political writings, Burke gave expression to new ideas about the nature of English politics and emphasized the value of political parties as necessary instruments of free government. Indeed, Mr. Cone states, in so far as Burke the conservative championed the cause of party government, he did more than the political radical to change the nature of the cabinet, of parliament, of their relationship to one another, of the monarchy and its relationship to the cabinet and parliament—in short, to revolutionize the practical working of the political and constitutional system of England. Based upon manuscript sources which were not opened to general scholarship until 1949, this book contains much new information about Burke's private life and provides a provocative reevaluation of his political career in the age of the American Revolution.
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Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles M. Johnston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Charles Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, at the Committee for Trade, 1784-1792 written by Charles M. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Philological Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Middleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196806
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Cornwallis written by Richard Middleton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years--the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738-1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India--and he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britain's colonial past. In this vivid new biography, Richard Middleton shows that this portrait is far from accurate. Cornwallis emerges as a reformer who had deep empathy for those under his authority and was clear about his obligation to govern justly. He sought to protect the population of Bengal with a constitution of written laws, insisted on Catholic emancipation in Ireland, and recognized the limitations of British power after the American war. Middleton reveals how Cornwallis' rewarding of merit, search for economy, and elimination of corruption helped improve the machinery of British government into the nineteenth century.
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Antiquaries Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Croyden Public Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Reader's Index & Guide written by Croyden Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Writings on British History written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
