At 12 Mr Byng Was Shot

Author : Dudley Pope
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781842126073
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At 12 Mr Byng was Shot written by Dudley Pope and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully compelling examination of the infamous episode immortalized by Voltaire in Candide. Admiral John Byng was shot on the deck of the HMS Monarch on March 14, 1757. His offense: following his superiors’ orders. The British navy sent his poorly armed ship to fight the French, using outdated tactics. The offensive failed, and to cover up the failure, Byng was accused of cowardice. Though he was cleared of those charges, he received a death sentence for “error of judgment.” He died, giving the signal to the firing squad for his own execution.

Author : Dudley Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Twelve Mr. Byng was Shot written by Dudley Pope and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vindication of Admiral John Byng, who was tried and executed on trumped-up charges of treason by a British Admiralty court-martial in 1757.

Author : Dudley Pope
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 : 9780436377495
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Twelve Mr. Byng was Shot written by Dudley Pope and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1962 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph J. Krulder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000381188
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019971732X
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Sea written by David Abulafia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it. Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all a history of human interaction. Interweaving major political and naval developments with the ebb and flow of trade, Abulafia explores how commercial competition in the Mediterranean created both rivalries and partnerships, with merchants acting as intermediaries between cultures, trading goods that were as exotic on one side of the sea as they were commonplace on the other. He stresses the remarkable ability of Mediterranean cultures to uphold the civilizing ideal of convivencia, "living together." Now available in paperback, The Great Sea is the definitive account of perhaps the most vibrant theater of human interaction in history.

Author : John Lennard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847601731
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Sex and Faerie: further essays on Genre Fiction written by John Lennard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up where Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fi ction of recent decades, including work by Bill James, Walter Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of contemporary paranormal romance, and of Hornblower's transition to space, while the fi nal essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive growth of fanfi ction, and with the increasingly empowered status of the reader in a digital world. There is an extensive bibliography of genre and critical work, with eight illustrations.

Author : Martin Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728784
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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 256 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John O'London's written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Lemon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401894
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 written by Daniel O'Quinn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness Awards Less than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O'Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of the American war for British audiences and how these convergent media attempted to articulate a post-American future for British imperial society. Building on the methodological innovations of his 2005 publication Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800, O’Quinn demonstrates how the reconstitution of British imperial subjectivities involved an almost nightly engagement with a rich entertainment culture that necessarily incorporated information circulated in the daily press. Each chapter investigates different moments in the American crisis through the analysis of scenes of social and theatrical performance and through careful readings of works by figures such as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Cowper, Hannah More, Arthur Murphy, Hannah Cowley, George Colman, and Georg Friedrich Handel. Through a close engagement with this diverse entertainment archive, O'Quinn traces the hollowing out of elite British masculinity during the 1770s and examines the resulting strategies for reconfiguring ideas of gender, sexuality, and sociability that would stabilize national and imperial relations in the 1780s. Together, O'Quinn's two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies.