Author: George RobertsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
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The life, progresses and rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth & to his capture and execution
Author: George RobertsThe Life, Progresses, and Rebellion of James, Duke of Monmouth
Author: George RobertsPublisher:
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Category : Bloody Assizes, 1685
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Life, Progresses, and Rebellion of James, Duke of Monmouth
Author: George RobertsPublisher:
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Category : Bloody Assizes, 1685
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Life Progresses and Rebellion of James, 1
Author: George RobertsThe Last Royal Rebel
Author: Anna KeayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 140884608X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.
The Life, Progresses, and Rebellion of James, Duke of Monmouth
Author: George RobertsPublisher:
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Category : Bloody Assizes, 1685
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Monthly Bulletin
Author: San Francisco Free Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Life of Thomas Ken
Author: John Lavicount AnderdonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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