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During the Seven Years War, Admiral Byng was charged with 'failing to do his utmost'. He was executed on board the Monarch on March 14th, 1757. 'The Shooting of Admiral Byng on board the Monarque'; artist unknown. A quiet, shy man, the unfortunate John Byng was no coward – he faced his death with cool courage – but he seems to have been too ...
L'Amiral John Byng , est un officier de marine britannique. Entré dans la Royal Navy à l'âge de treize ans, il prend part à la bataille du cap Passaro en 1718. Pendant les trente années qui suivent, il se construit une réputation d'officier de marine de qualité et est promu Vice-Admiral en 1747. Byng est surtout connu pour la perte de Minorque en 1756 au début de la guerre de Sept Ans ...
13 de jun. de 2019 · Mais Georges II demeura inflexible, et John Byng fut exécuté le 14 mars 1757, sur le pont du vaisseau de ligne HMS Monarch. Conséquences : une Royal Navy plus puissante Cet incident, au-delà de l’injustice certaine – certains auteurs parlent même de « meurtre judiciaire » pour le qualifier – qu’il représente, pourrait sembler anecdotique.
Description. According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to 'encourage the others'. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval history.
15 de abr. de 2018 · Vice Admiral John Byng. (Image source: WikiCommons) The “Byng Principle” Sentenced to death for failing to “do his utmost” at the disastrous Battle of Minorca, many historians have since held Byng up as a scapegoat for the Admiralty and British government’s own failures at prosecuting the Seven Years’ War.
3 The Stare-about Pile, near Barnet, was built by Admiral John Byng about the year 1750 and named, probably for sentimental reasons, Wrotham Park after the place in Kent, where the Byngs had resided for many generations. Wrotham in Kent had been sold by Admiral John Byng's grandfather towards the end of the seventeenth century.
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 ...
