The Rodney Papers

This, the second of three volumes of the correspondence of George Brydges Rodney, covers the admiral''s life from the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 until August 1780. This was perhaps his most eventful, extraordinary and controversial period; from being a successful admiral, a member of Parliament and the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, Rodney plunges into debt and a debtor''s exile in France...