| DIARY OF THOMAS BELLINGHAMAn Officer under William III Contributor(s): Hewitson, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845749022 ISBN-13: 9781845749026 Publisher: Naval & Military Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - History |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (0.91 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Glorious Revolution which displaced the Catholic and increasingly tyrannical James II with William of Orange and James's Protestant daughter Mary is an epochal event in English history. This diary is a very valuable insider's account. It's author, Col. Thomas Bellingham, was a professional soldier who served in the Army of William of Orange after the latter deposed King James and became King William III. The period covered by this diary is a little over a year - August 1688 to September 1690 - but that dramatic period encompassed the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 at which William's army decisively defeated that of James on the RIver Boyne in Ireland. The Colonel's diary, incidentally, is one of the chief sources of the great historian Lord Macaulay in his account of the battle in his 'History of England'. Apart from its military interest, the diary gives a fascinating insight into the social life of a turn-of-the 17th/18th century English officer and gent. |