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.
Download or read book Admiral John Byng s British Execution written by Joseph John Krulder and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Exact Copy of a Remarkable Letter from Admiral Byng to the Right Hon W P Esq Dated March 12 1757 Two Days Before His Execution written by John Byng and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The trial of admiral John Byng at a court martial With Appendix written by and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The trial of the Honourable Admiral John Byng written by and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Original Paper Delivered by Admiral Byng to the Marshal Just Before His Execution on Board His Majesty s Ship Monarque A Genuine Copy of what was Contained in a Paper Delivered by the Hon Admiral John Byng to William Brough Esq Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty Immediately Before His Death Having First Spoke as Follows written by John Byng and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book A Candid Examination of the Resolutions and Sentence of the Court martial on the Trial of Admiral Byng By an Old Sea Officer written by Old Sea Officer and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T019880 In this issue there is a semi-colon after 'Byng' and in the imprint 'Holborn'. London: printed for J. Cooke, 1757. [2],38p.; 8°
Download or read book A Rueful Story or Britain in tears being the conduct of Admiral B g i e the Hon John Byng in the late engagement off Mahone with a French fleet the 20 of May 1756 written by and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Original Paper Delivered by Admiral Byng to the Marshal Just Before His Execution Etc written by John Byng and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United Kingdom and Spain in the Eighteenth Century written by Manuel-Reyes García Hurtado and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the eighteenth century witnessed periods of tension, conflict and hostility between the two powers, their relationship remained multifaceted and significant in other spheres. Throughout the eighteenth century, Spain and Great Britain passed through phases of open warfare, armed peace and deep suspicion. The British capture of Gibraltar and Menorca dealt a severe blow to the newly established Bourbon dynasty in Spain. Even in times of war, however, not all communication channels were closed, with numerous formal and informal contacts being made despite the volatile political climate and enmities. The contributors of this book go beyond the well-known animosity and conflicts to explore the spectrum of interactions, encompassing cultural exchange, traditional diplomacy, trade and espionage plus a multitude of other facets. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and students interested in the complex relations between Great Britain and Spain during the eighteenth century, as well as for a broader audience of historians and both undergraduate and postgraduate students of history and international relations.
Download or read book The Trial of Vice Admiral Byng at a Court Martial Held on Board His Majesty s Ship the St George in Portsmouth Harbour Together with the Admiral s Defence Taken Down in Short Hand written by JOHN. BYNG and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T051708 With a half-title. London: printed for J. Reason, 1757. [4],48p.; 8°
Download or read book An Exact Copy of a Remarkable Letter from Admiral Byng to the Rt Hon W P Esq written by John Byng and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Case of the Hon Admiral Byng Ingenuously Represented Also an Elegy on His Death written by John Byng and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace written by Kristin M.S. Bezio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. By examining the religiously motivated markets and marketplace practices in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, Scotland, and Wales, the volume presents religious praxis as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the social and economic markets. Within the volume, the authors address first spiritual markets and marketplaces, discussing the intersection of Puritan and Protestant Ethics with the market economy. The second part addresses material marketplaces, including the marriage market, commercial trade markets, and the post-Reformation Catholic black market. In the third part of the volume, the chapters focus specifically on publication markets and books, including manuscripts and commonplace books, as well as printed volumes and pamphlets. Finally, the volume concludes with an examination of the literary marketplace, with analyses of plays and poems which engage with and depict both spiritual and material markets. Taken as a whole, this collection posits that the "modern" conception of a division between religion and the socioeconomic marketplace was a largely fictional construct, and the chapters demonstrate the depth to which both were integrated in early modern life.
Download or read book Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics written by Paul Hughes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings’, Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, cartographic and larger market of marine enthusiasts. Through shipwreck and Arctic marooning, and Dutch and Spanish charts, Collins evolved a Prime Meridian running through Charles’s capital. After John Ogilby’s successful Britannia, Charles set Collins surveying his kingdom’s coasts, and James set John Adair surveying in Scotland. They triangulated at sea. Subsequently, Collins persuaded James to sustain his dead brother’s ambition. This, the British coast’s first survey took six years. After James’s flight, and William III’s invasion, Collins lead the royal yacht squadron for six years more, garnering funds to publish Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot. The Admiralty and civic institutions subsidised what became his own pilot. Collins aided Royal Society members in their investigations, and his new guide remained vital to navigators through the century following. Charles’s cartographic promotion bloomed the most spectacularly in the atlases of Ogilby, Collins and John Flamsteed for roads, harbours, and stars.
