At the beginning of his diary, on 1st January 1660, Samuel Pepys noted that 'Lawson lies still in the River'. A mere two weeks before, amid rioting in the streets of London and with Parliament under the control of the army, Vice?Admiral John Lawson had taken a fleet of twenty-two warships into the Thames and, in defence of Parliament, blockaded the city.Despite being a staunch republican, Lawson would later aid the Restoration of Charles II, and died from wounds received in battle during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665.This biography charts the tumultuous life and times of an ordinary seaman born in Scarborough who would come to play a major role in the English Civil War, the Restoration, the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the start of the transformation of England into a global political and economic power in the seventeenth century.
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Lawson Lies Still in the Thames
The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson
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The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Matter from the Beginning
- Chapter 2: A Very High Trust
- Chapter 3: These Frenzied-Conceited Men
- Chapter 4: Such Pernicious Designs
- Chapter 5: A Health to the King
- Chapter 6: Incomparably the Modestest and the Wisest Man
- Picture Section
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Appendices
- Sources and Bibliography
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