The Rodney Papers

Author : David Syrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000341720

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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.

Author : David Syrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000341744

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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.

Author : George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Admirals
ISBN : MSU:31293021298454

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The Rodney Papers by George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney Pdf

Overbearing, avaricious and difficult, yet talented and ambitious, George Brydges Rodney was 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, touching on both his private and political life.

Author : George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Admirals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120947366

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The Rodney Papers: 1742-1763 by George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney Pdf

Author : George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Admirals
ISBN : MSU:31293029213984

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The Rodney Papers by George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney Pdf

Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007000115

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Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor Pdf

Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Canada
ISBN : UIUC:30112003421192

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The Later History of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America by Justin Winsor Pdf

Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : America
ISBN : UCSD:31822017322736

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The latter history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. 1889 by Justin Winsor Pdf

Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:HWB3AC

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Narrative and Critical History of America: The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. [c1889 by Justin Winsor Pdf

Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : America
ISBN : UOMDLP:acp2377:0008.002

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Narrative and Critical History of America: The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. 1889 by Justin Winsor Pdf

Author : Sam Willis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248838

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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution by Sam Willis Pdf

A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? The American Revolution involved a naval war of immense scope and variety, including no fewer than twenty-two navies fighting on five oceans—to say nothing of rivers and lakes. In no other war were so many large-scale fleet battles fought, one of which was the most strategically significant naval battle in all of British, French, and American history. Simultaneous naval campaigns were fought in the English Channel, the North and Mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, off South Africa, in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the North Sea and, of course, off the eastern seaboard of America. Not until the Second World War would any nation actively fight in so many different theaters. In The Struggle for Sea Power, Sam Willis traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and he also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. In doing so Willis offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire.

Author : Roger Morriss,Peter Bursey,National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:35007002192528

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Guide to British Naval Papers in North America by Roger Morriss,Peter Bursey,National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) Pdf

This guide describes and locates over 1100 collections of original British naval documents in 250 US and Canadian repositories. It lists separate collections under six categories; provides a directory of libraries holding these collections, with details of opening hours, access, photocopying facilities and lists of papers held; and supplies three indexes.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044053036612

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Parliamentary Papers by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Britt Zerbe
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838371

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The Birth of the Royal Marines, 1664-1802 by Britt Zerbe Pdf

The book highlights especially the Marines' roles as guards against mutiny and desertion and as an imperial 'rapid reaction force' and provides details of the many and varied actions in which they were involved, worldwide.

Author : Richard Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317892786

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The War of American Independence by Richard Middleton Pdf

Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects. Although they eventually secured independence, it was only with the assistance of France and indirectly Spain, who diverted British resources from the conflict in America, allowing France eventually to deliver a knockout blow at Yorktown. This extensive yet accessible exploration into the War of American Independence provides aclear analysis of why this complex conflict occurred and why it ended as it did, revealing the fragile nature of the American Patriot cause. An essential guide for any history student, including those specializing in war/peace studies and the study of international relations, as well the general reader with an interest in the study of war.