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James II JOCK HASWELL $10.95 ?r James II ; JOCK HASWELL James, Duke of York, brother of Charles II, commanded the French Army in Champagne and the Spanish Army in the Low Countries; he was offered the highest military.command in Italy and the most senior ridVsd post in Spain. As Lord High Admiral he led the English fleet into action in two great naval battles. ‘A most glorious young Prince,’ wrote one of his contemporaries. Yet to many he is only the King who threw away all the great advantages passed on to him when his brother died, and fled ignominiously into exile. But is this true? Was he not the first real champion of religious freedom ? William Penn, the Quaker and his lasting friend, thought so. Was he not harried into exile by the treachery of the men he trusted, and forced to make way for the dour and silent William of Orange ? Did he, as King, ever really have a chance to succeed ? Was James the obstinate bigot that Whig historians say he was, or was he an honest, much-maligned man: the target of another man’s ambition and of propaganda which sought to justify the so-called ‘Glorious’ Revolution ? Jock Haswell has looked at him as a man rather than a King, and the answers seem obvious. Jacket design by GEORGE MAYHEW Jacket photograph reproduced by courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery Chicago Public Library REFERENCE Form 178 rev. 1-94 ni™ Uf' f Ifl/IVEL DEPT. Canhuk. wtrt JikrastU . The Chicago Public Library 1 1973 FEB 6 Dec. 20. 1972 i Received- +\ai l*'xu t&t irre/tr uv Vrii/u£rj\& . t f.TlC tft Tran. James II SOLDIER AND SAILOR By the same Author THE QUEEN’S ROYAL REGIMENT [west surrey] THE FIRST RESPECTABLE SPY James II, by Kneller JOCK HASWELL James II SOLDIER AND SAILOR REF/ DA 450 .H27 1972 Haswell, Jock, 1919- James II; soldier and sailor ST MARTIN’S PRESS NEW YORK Copyright © 1972 by Jock Haswell All rights reserved. For information, write: St. Martin’s Press, Inc. 175 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10010 Printed in Great Britain Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-76793 First published in the United States of America in 1972 affiliated publishers: Macmillan & Company, Limited, London also at Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Melbourne—The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, Toronto CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY DEC 2 0 1972
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