Henry Pattee Byng (1699-1747) was Sir George Byng's eldest son and
became the second Viscount Torrington on his father's death in 1733
(see volumes 67, 68 and 70). This very detailed journal is
concerned only with the Sicilian Campaign between 1718 and 1720.
The very young Pattee Byng had spent time as an army officer and
was not officially in the Navy, but George Byng received the King's
permission for his eldest son to accompany him as his
representative and special envoy, when George Byng was appointed to
command the British Mediterranean Fleet in March 1718. The journal
gives a lively picture of the campaign and the difficulties of
cooperation between a British fleet and an Austrian army. Pattee
Byng took the news of his father's victory over the Spanish at Cape
Passaro beack to England, travelling overland by coach.
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