Author: Andrew BurnPublisher:
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of the Late Major-General Andrew Burn, of the Royal Marines
Author: Andrew BurnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of the Late Major General Andrew Burn, 1
Author: Andrew BurnMemoirs of the Life of the late Major-General Andrew Burn ... collected from his journals: with copious extracts from his principal works on religious subjects. [Edited by John Allen, of Hackney. With a preface by Olinthus Gregory, J. Handfield and J. Dyer. With a portrait.]
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Author: Andrew BURN (Major-General.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of the Late Major General Andrew Burn, 2
Author: Andrew BurnMemoirs of the life of ... major-general Andrew Burn, collected from his journals: with copious extracts from his principal works on religious subjects [ed. by J. Allen].
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Author: Andrew BurnThe Birth of the Royal Marines, 1664-1802
Author: Britt ZerbePublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843838370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The book highlights especially the Marines' roles as guards against mutiny and desertion and as an imperial 'rapid reaction force' and provides details of the many and varied actions in which they were involved, worldwide.
Religion in the British Navy 1815-1879
Author: Richard BlakePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843838850
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Shows how the rise of evangelical religion in the navy helped create a new kind of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in a higher set of values. This book examines how, as the nineteenth century progressed, religious piety, especially evangelical piety, was seen in the British navy less as eccentric and marginal and more as an essential ingredient of the character looked for in professional seamen. The book traces the complex interplay between formal religious observance, such as Sunday worship, and pockets of zealous piety, showing how evangelicalism gradually earned less grudging regard, until inthe 1860s and 1870s it became a dominant source of values and a force for moral reform. Religion in the British Navy explains this shift, outlining how Arctic expeditions showed the need for dependability and character, how Health Returns revealed the full extent of sexual licence and demonstrated the urgency of moral reform, and how manning difficulties in the Russian War of 1854-1856 showed that a modern fleet required a new type of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in a higher set of values. The book also discusses how the navy, with its newly awakened religious sensibilities, played a major role in the expansion of Protestant missions globally, in exploration, convict transportation, the expansion of imperial frontiers, and worldwide maritime policing operations. Fervent piety had an effect in all these areas - religion had helped develop a new kind of manliness where piety as well asdaring had a place. RICHARD BLAKE is the author of Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 (Boydell 2008).
Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815
Author: Richard BlakePublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843833598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Religious activity flourished in the eighteenth-century navy; this book examines the reasons why and its manifestations. The Evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact, the navy of the Revolutionaryand Napoleonic Wars showed a level of religious observance not seen since the days of Queen Anne. Evangelical laymen provided one dynamic for this change: concentrating first on public worship, they moved to active proselytism insearch of converts amongst sailors, and in a third phase developed a loose network of prayer groups in scores of ships, uniting officers and seamen in voluntary gatherings that transcended rank. This book explores the effect this new piety had on discipline and human governance, on literacy, on the development of chaplains' ministry and on the mindset of the officer corps. It also looks at the larger question of how its values were absorbed into the ethos of the navy as a whole. It draws on sources both familiar and unusual - logs, letters, minutes, memoirs, tracts and sermons, Regulations - to explain how evangelical influence affected officer corps, lower deck andAdmiralty, showing how a movement that began by promoting public worship at sea became an agency for mass evangelism through literature, preaching and off-duty gatherings, where officers and men met for shared Bible reading and prayer a mere decade after the great Mutinies.
The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835
Author: Neil RamseyPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409410348
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel HalkettPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description