
The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain
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According to Voltaire, Admiral John Byng was executed to "encourage the others." Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval, social, and cultural history.