The Rodney Papers

The Rodney Papers
Author: David Syrett
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: 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.

The Rodney Papers

The Rodney Papers
Author: David Syrett
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: 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.

The Rodney Papers

The Rodney Papers
Author: George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2005
Genre: Admirals
ISBN: MSU:31293021298454

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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.

The Rodney Papers 1742 1763

The Rodney Papers  1742 1763
Author: George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2005
Genre: Admirals
ISBN: 0754660079

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The Rodney Papers

The Rodney Papers
Author: George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney
Publsiher: Ashgate Publishing
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2005
Genre: Admirals
ISBN: MSU:31293029213984

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The Rodney Papers 1742 1763

The Rodney Papers  1742 1763
Author: George Brydges Rodney Baron Rodney
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2005
Genre: Admirals
ISBN: STANFORD:36105120947366

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Narrative and Critical History of America

Narrative and Critical History of America
Author: Justin Winsor
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 632
Release: 1889
Genre: America
ISBN: STANFORD:36105007000115

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The Later History of British Spanish and Portuguese America

The Later History of British  Spanish  and Portuguese America
Author: Justin Winsor
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1889
Genre: Canada
ISBN: UIUC:30112003421192

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