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Hace 4 días · At the end of December 1756, Admiral John Byng was put on trial for breaching the Articles of War, instructions set out by the Royal Navy in 1749 to establish and regulate martial behaviour. Byng, who had commanded a fleet of ships during the Battle of Minorca in the late spring of 1756, was accused of failing to do his utmost during ...
Hace 5 días · The route is described in The Compleat Angler and was probably that taken by John Byng, later Viscount Torrington, in 1789 when he travelled from Ashbourne via Alstonefield village to visit the copper mines at Ecton, in Wetton.
Hace 2 días · John Byng was a Bedfordshire man and that may have added to the connection Angus found. Helping to clear up his library of rowing books and ephemera a few months ago, I was sorry not to find the engraving on the end of the sitting room shelf, to where the Admiral had been retired to look out over the mouth of Loch Eriboll (surely one of the finest views in the British Isles).
Hace 1 día · 2 In addition to Byng’s monograph, see also: Nigel Saul, Decorated in Glory: Church Building in Herefordshire in the Fourteenth Century (Eardisley: Logaston Press, 2020); Clive Burgess, The Right Ordering of Souls: The Parish of All Saints’ Bristol on the Eve of the Reformation (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018), chapter 10; Gary G. Gibbs, Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London ...
Hace 2 días · The estates later passed from George Byng to his youngest brother John, who was created Viscount Enfield and Earl of Strafford in 1847. The Mellish Estate, built up by a series of purchases over a half a century, was the largest private estate in Poplar throughout the nineteenth century.
Hace 5 días · In the action off Minorca in 1756 he was second in command to Admiral John Byng, who was defeated, and in consequence condemned to death by court-martial and shot for alleged neglect of duty. Temple West was superseded, but no blame could be laid at his door.
Hace 5 días · The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia. The other alliance was led by France, backed by Spain, Saxony, Sweden, and Russia.
