Download or read book A letter to the Right Hon Lord Rodney K B written by and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to the Right Hon Lord Rodney K B Vice Admiral of England written by Navy Officer and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to the Right Hon Lord Rodney K B written by Navy officer and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Letter to the Rt Hon Lord Rodney K B Vice Admiral of England c on the Subject of the St Eustatius Prize Money written by Sint Eustatius and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney written by Godfrey Basil Mundy and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Correspondence of the Late Admiral Lord Rodney written by Godfrey Basil Mundy and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1972 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rodney Papers written by George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the second of three volumes of the correspondence of George Brydges Rodney, covers the admiral's life from the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 until August 1780. This was perhaps his most eventful, extraordinary and controversial period; from being a successful admiral, a member of Parliament and the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, Rodney plunges into debt and a debtor's exile in France, only to rise again as a victorious admiral and as a national hero. At the end of the Seven Years War Rodney was disappointed and bitter at the failure of the British government to reward him for his prominent part in the capture of Martinique and other French islands in the West Indies. He was made baronet in 1764 and governor of Greenwich Hospital in 1765. He had already been a member of Parliament for Saltash in 1751-4, and sat for Okehampton, Penryn and Northampton consecutively between 1759 and 1774. In 1768 he was involved in one of the most costly elections in eighteenth century parliamentary history. He secured election at Northampton, but his finances were broken. Furthermore, he had begun to gamble heavily and, with a limited income, fell into the hands of moneylenders. In 1770 he attempted to recoup his finances by becoming Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica. Nevertheless in the West Indies until 1774 Rodney managed a successful period of diplomacy with Spain, of intelligence gathering, and of navigational surveying especially off the coast of Florida. Even so, he returned to England deeply in debt and was forced to flee to France to escape his creditors. The war with the American colonies proved to be Rodney's salvation. After war with France had broken out, in 1779 the British government was desperate for an admiral who could fight and win battles. Rodney was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Leeward Islands. His success in battle and skillful conduct of the naval war in the West Indies in 1780 restored Rodney's public standing. The stage was set for his most famous victory, the Battle of the Saintes in 1782, and the restoration of his private finances. George Brydges Rodney had gone through a dramatic change of fortunes. The character of that man is revealed here. This volume will permit re-assessment of this outstanding British admiral of the American War of Independence for a new generation of historians.
Download or read book The Rodney Papers written by David Syrett and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overbearing, avaricious and difficult, yet talented and ambitious, George Brydges Rodney has never attracted much sympathy or understanding. He was nevertheless an original thinker and one of the great admirals of the eighteenth century. The contents of this volume, the first of three, document his career from 1742 until 1763 - his private and political life. His early years as a captain were spent in the severe conditions of the North Sea and in taking privateers in the western approaches. During the peace after 1748 he was Governor of Newfoundland and in the Seven Years' War blockaded Le Havre before going, as a flag officer, to command in the Leeward Islands where he participated in the capture of Martinique. This volume also contains letters to his wife which indicate, against past opinion, that Rodney had a heart.
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Download or read book A Chronological Record of the Remarkable Public Events Political Historical Biographical Literary Domestic Miscellaneous During the Reigns of George the Third and Fourth and His Present Majesty with Statistical Tables and an Index written by William Toone and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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