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The Admiral's Sacrifice: John Byng and the Making of an Example
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- ISBN8235044142
- EAN9798235044142
- Date de parution07/07/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
The Admiral's Sacrifice: John Byng and the Making of an Example On a gale-swept March morning in 1757, six Royal Marines shot dead a British admiral whose own court-martial had just acquitted him of cowardice. John Byng's crime was negligence, a failure to keep his fleet together off Minorca against a French force his own government had sent him to fight with rotten ships and hundreds of missing men.
This is the story of how an admiral's son, raised on a single effortless naval triumph, spent four decades never once tested in battle before the one afternoon that would define and destroy him, and how a ministry desperate to survive a summer of bread riots and national humiliation manufactured his guilt through an edited dispatch, a manipulated press, and a law drafted seven years earlier for an entirely different injustice.
The court that condemned him petitioned for his life. A Lord Commissioner refused to sign his death warrant. William Pitt appealed directly to the King. The French commander who defeated him sent a letter in his defence that British ministers intercepted and buried. Drawing on court-martial records, parliamentary debates, and the dispatches themselves, this is a gripping reconstruction of institutional cowardice dressed as justice, and the sacrifice of one man to save a government.
This is the story of how an admiral's son, raised on a single effortless naval triumph, spent four decades never once tested in battle before the one afternoon that would define and destroy him, and how a ministry desperate to survive a summer of bread riots and national humiliation manufactured his guilt through an edited dispatch, a manipulated press, and a law drafted seven years earlier for an entirely different injustice.
The court that condemned him petitioned for his life. A Lord Commissioner refused to sign his death warrant. William Pitt appealed directly to the King. The French commander who defeated him sent a letter in his defence that British ministers intercepted and buried. Drawing on court-martial records, parliamentary debates, and the dispatches themselves, this is a gripping reconstruction of institutional cowardice dressed as justice, and the sacrifice of one man to save a government.