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Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford GCB, GCH, PC (Ire) (1772 – 3 June 1860) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and Irish Rebellion of 1798, he became Commanding Officer of the Grenadier Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards during the disastrous ...
"John Byng" published on by null. (1704–57),British admiral, the fourth son of George Byng, Viscount Torrington and admiral of the fleet. With his father's influence to help him he quickly reached flag rank though without any real experience of command.
John Byng (Southill, 29 ottobre 1704 – Portsmouth, 14 marzo 1757) è stato un ammiraglio inglese. La prima causa della sua notorietà è dovuta alla sua fucilazione sul cassero della HMS Monarch a Portsmouth dopo una corte marziale istruita per la sua mancata difesa di Minorca durante la battaglia navale lì combattuta durante la guerra dei sette anni .
BYNG, JOHN, officer in the Royal Navy, governor of Newfoundland; baptized at Southill, Bedfordshire, England, 29 Oct. 1704, son of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, and Margaret Masters; d. 14 March 1757. John Byng entered the navy in 1718 in the Superbe, serving in the Mediterranean. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1724, and promoted ...
14 de mar. de 2020 · First, a message from England in response to reports of the Battle of Minorca relieved Byng of his command and ordered him home. The second reported that Minorca had surrendered on June 29. To the British government, John Byng’s cowardice had cost them their best foothold in the Mediterranean and started the Seven Years’ War on the wrong foot.
Admiral John Byng was a British Royal Navy officer who was court-martialled and executed by firing squad. After joining the navy at the age of thirteen, he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. Over the next thirty years he built up a reputation as a solid naval officer and received promotion to vice-admiral in 1747. He also served as Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland Colony in ...
John Byng, född 29 oktober 1704, död 14 mars 1757, var en engelsk sjömilitär, son till George Byng, 1:e viscount Torrington, bror till Pattee Byng, 2:e viscount Torrington och Pattee Byng, 2:e viscount Torrington. Byng avancerade utan att särskilt utmärka sig fort och blev 1755 amiral. År 1756 sändes han med en flotta för att undsätta ...
