Contents: Preface; Part I Between the Wars, 1763-1778; Part II The Relief of Gibraltar, March 1779-March 1780; Part III The Leeward Islands, March 1780-August 1780. Appendix: List of documents and sources; Index.
David Syrett was formerly from the Graduate Centre, City University of New York, USA.
’The completion of the three-volume Rodney Papers series will plug a yawning gap in the published primary source literature about the eighteenth-century Royal Navy... We are well accustomed to high-quality publications from the Navy Records Society, which has now been producing such volumes for well over a century. This volume more than meet the standards of its predecessors. David Syrett, in addition to making a careful selection from the previously unpublished manuscripts, contributed three substantial essays that do an excellent job of explaining the documents and sorting out their potentially confusing historical contexts.’ International Journal of Maritime History ’this enlightening and important volume... a very scholarly work which will be of great value to students of the period and which forms a worthy addition to the Society’s catalogue.’ Mariner's Mirror
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