The raison d'etre of this collection is the man from whom it takes its title. This was the Duke of Cumberland, who was born William Augustus in London on 15 April 1721 and was the third son of George, Prince of Wales (George II from 1727-60) and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales.
"Looking back a generation in 1815, John Adams reminded […] Thomas Jefferson, that America’s revolution from Britain was not fought with gunpowder and…"
"The comic images published in Punch have proved to be both relentlessly entertaining and endlessly informative to generations of readers…"
"I was, I believe, the last person to leave the newsroom of the New York Herald Tribune on April 23, 1966, the day it folded. I walked through the lobby…"
"One of the most striking phenomena of the early modern period was the rise and then the decline of Spain between the late fifteenth and the late seventeenth…"
"Sport for the well-to-do gentleman in mid-nineteenth century London and the Home Counties embraced news and comment on hunting, fishing…"
"The State Papers are excellent sources for the foreign policy of Britain and other states and, indirectly, for the processes of policy formation and government…"
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Sonetos de la muerte and Lecturas para Mujeres.
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