Admiral Vernon and the Navy
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Excerpt from Admiral Vernon and the Navy: A Memoir and Vindication; Being an Account of the Admiral´s Career at Sea and in Parliament, With Sidelights on the Political Conduct of Sir Robert Walpole and His Colleagues, and a Critical Reply to Smollett and Other Historians Certain historians, from Tobias Smollett downwards, have done scant justice to the subject of this memoir, and even the origin of the nickname "Old Grog" has been misrepresented. So far as the author of "Roderick Random" is concerned, possible reasons for his prejudice may be found in the present narrative. But, apart from Sir Robert Walpole and his colleagues, most of Vernon´s contemporaries honoured him as an upright man and brave and able officer. Walpole, who held that "every man had his price," found in Old Grog an inconvenient exception to his cynical summary. He hated him accordingly, and his political henchmen followed suit. Westminster Abbey contains a tribute in stone to the Admiral´s character and services. In H.M.S. Vernon (the Torpedo School in Portsmouth Harbour) the Royal Navy retains a special memorial of its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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