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The Rodney Papers - Volume I, 1742-1763: Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Rodney Papers - Volume I, 1742-1763: Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral Lord Rodney (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Navy Records Society Publications
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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.
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