Complete Baronetage: English, Irish and Scottish, 1649-1664
Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Baronetage
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Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Baronetage
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Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Baronetage
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Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Baronetage
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Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Baronetage
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Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Baronetage
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Author : John Childs
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1441118039
General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery nearly resulted in the city's fall and he was made to look ridiculous when the blockade was eventually lifted by a few sailors in a rowing boat. Yet Kirke was closely involved in some of the most important events in British and Irish history. He served as the last governor of the colony of Tangier; played a central role in facilitating the Glorious Revolution of 1688; and fought in the majority of the principal actions and campaigns undertaken by the newly-formed standing armies in England, Ireland and Scotland, especially the Battle of the Boyne and the first Siege of Limerick in 1689. With the aid of his own earlier work in the field, additional primary sources and a recently-rediscovered letter book, John Childs looks beyond the fictionalisation of Kirke, most notably by R. D. Blackmore in Lorna Doone, to investigate the historical reality of his career, character, professional competence, politics and religion. As well as offering fresh, detailed narratives of such episodes as Monmouth's Rebellion, the conspiracies in 1688 and the Siege of Londonderry, this pioneering biography also presents insights into contemporary military personnel, patronage, cliques and procedures.
Author : George Edward Cokayne
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Baronetage
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Author : Oxford and Cambridge university club libr
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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