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2 giorni fa · 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 ...
4 giorni fa · 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.
3 giorni fa · 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.
5 giorni fa · Guide-book writers of the period frequently remark on its magnificence, though that captious traveller, the Hon. John Byng, found it in 1789 'a most blackguard stop'. Queen, then Princess, Victoria stayed there in 1832.
5 giorni fa · Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy was a British field marshal and a commander in World War I. A career soldier from 1883, Byng was promoted to major general in 1909. As commander of the Canadian Corps in France (from May 1916), he was responsible for one of the most famous Canadian.
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6 giorni fa · Present at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington had 71,257 soldiers available, 3,866 officers and 65,919 other ranks. By the end of the day's fighting the army had suffered 16,084 casualties (3,024 killed, 10,222 wounded and 2,838 missing) a loss of 24.6%.
2 giorni fa · A British attempt at relief was foiled at the Battle of Minorca, and the island was captured on 28 June (for which Admiral Byng was court-martialed and executed). Britain formally declared war on France on 17 May, nearly two years after fighting had broken out in the Ohio Country.
