The Life of Richard Earl Howe - Barrow

The Life of Richard Earl Howe, K.G., Admiral of the Fleet, and General of the Marines by Sir John Barrow. The author drew on more than 400 of Howe's personal letters in preparing this substantial biography. Richard, Earl Howe (1726-99) participated in some of the Royal Navy's most significant conflicts. As captain of the Dunkirk, he fired the first shots of the Seven Years' War off the eastern coast of North America in 1755. After being forced to juggle the demands of the American Revolutionary War with the British government's reluctance to put the ships he needed at his disposal, he resigned his command of the North American Station, but later made a comeback, masterminding the battle against the French on the 'Glorious First of June' in 1794. Frontis plus 2 folding facsimile letters. Hardcover. 432pp.