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Early Hanoverians by Edward Ellis Morris
by Loyal Books
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old king assumed the throne when James Stuart roused the Highlanders in the "Fifteen." Five years later the collapse of the South Sea Company convulsed Britain and her first prime minister, Robert Walpole, emerged to stabilize the country's finances. George II succeeded his father in 1727 and Morris writes that "the new King was in person short, and like many short men, proud and touchy." Fortunately, he was guided by the wise Queen Caroline. On the Continent, the Turks besieged Vienna, Britain got embroiled first in the War of Jenkins' Ear and then in the War of the Austrian Succession, while Bonnie Prince Charlie took advantage of these distractions to mount the nearly successful Jacobite invasion of the "Forty-five." Meanwhile, John Wesley's Methodism revived religious enthusiasm, Boswell immortalized Samuel Johnson and his friends, and Tom Jones emb
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Bk. I: The Long Peace, Ch. 1: Europe After Utrecht
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Bk. I, Ch. 2: George I
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Bk. I, Ch. 3: The Electorate
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Bk. I, Ch. 4: First Measures
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Bk. I, Ch. 5: The Fifteen
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Bk. I, Ch. 6: Septennial Act and Peerage Bill
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Bk. I, Ch. 7: France and Spain
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Bk. I, Ch. 8: Law and the South Sea Bubble
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Bk. I, Ch. 9: Sir Robert Walpole
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Bk. I, Ch. 10: Atterbury and Bolingbroke
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Bk. I, Ch. 11: Nearly a European War
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Bk. I, Ch. 12: Death of George I and of Sir Isaac Newton
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Bk. I, Ch. 13: George II and Queen Caroline
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Bk. I, Ch. 14: The Porteous Riots
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Bk. I, Ch. 15: Walpole's Fall
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Bk. II: The Wars, Ch. 1: The Turks
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Bk. II, Ch. 2: Polish Succession War
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Bk. II, Ch. 3: Jenkins' Ear
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Bk. II, Ch. 4: Anson's Voyage
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Bk. II, Ch. 5: Austrian Succession
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Bk. II, Ch. 6: Battle of Dettingen
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Bk. II, Ch. 7: Dettingen to Fontenoy
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Bk. II, Ch. 8: Campaign of Fontenoy
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Bk. II, Ch. 9: The Forty-Five, Pt. 1
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Bk. II, Ch. 9: The Forty-Five, Pt. 2
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Bk. II, Ch. 9: The Forty-Five, Pt. 3
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Bk. II, Ch. 10: Remainder of the Continental War
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Bk. II, Ch. 11: Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle
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Bk. III: Religion and Letters, Ch. 1: Wesley and Butler
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Bk. III, Ch. 2: Berkeley and Oglethorpe
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Bk. III, Ch. 3: English Literature, Pt. 1
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Bk. III, Ch. 3: English Literature, Pt. 2
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Bk. III, Ch. 4: French Literature, Pt. 1
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Bk. III, Ch. 4: French Literature, Pt. 2
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In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old king assumed the throne when James Stuart roused the Highlanders in the "Fifteen." Five years later the collapse of the South Sea Company convulsed Britain and her first prime minister, Robert Walpole, emerged to stabilize the country's finances. George II succeeded his father in 1727 and Morris writes that "the new King was in person short, and like many short men, proud and touchy." Fortunately, he was guided by the wise Queen Caroline. On the Continent, the Turks besieged Vienna, Britain got embroiled first in the War of Jenkins' Ear and then in the War of the Austrian Succession, while Bonnie Prince Charlie took advantage of these distractions to mount the nearly successful Jacobite invasion of the "Forty-five." Meanwhile, John Wesley's Methodism revived religious enthusiasm, Boswell immortalized Samuel Johnson and his friends, and Tom Jones emb
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