Mary Singleton, supposed author of this paper, with its trenchant comments on society and politics, is an unmarried woman on the verge of fifty,
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McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983.
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good-humoured as well as sharply intelligent: a contribution to the...
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11 February 1744: An English fleet under Thomas Mathews had...
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11 February 1744
An English fleet under Thomas Mathews
had a somewhat desultory engagement with a slightly smaller fleet made up of French and Spanish ships.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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June 1756: Britain declared war on France, following...
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June 1756
Britain declared war on France, following the fall of Minorca in the Mediterranean on 19 May. This began the Seven Years' War.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
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Hudson, Nicholas. “Samuel Johnson, Imperialism, and the Seven Years War”. Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS/SCEDHS) Conference, 19 Oct. 2012.
14 March 1757: Admiral John Byng was executed (by firing-squad...
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14 March 1757
Admiral John Byng
was executed (by firing-squad on the deck of his own flagship) for his part in the loss of the Mediterranean island of Minorca to the French the previous year: a step towards...
