The Last Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681-1683: Volume 66

The Last Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681-1683: Volume 66
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 January 2024
Pages
490
ISBN
9781009446747

The Last Days of English Tangier: The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681-1683: Volume 66

Governor Percy Kirke's Out-Letter Book, here transcribed verbatim and annotated, covers the terminal decline of English Tangier, ending just before the arrival of Lord Dartmouth's expedition charged with demolishing the town and evacuating all personnel. It contains 152 official letters mostly addressed to the Tangier Committee, the subcommittee of the Privy Council responsible for Tangerine affairs, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, secretary of state for the south. Although all matters of civilian and military administration, from the essential to the trivial, came within the governor's purview - there was little delegation - the weight of Kirke's correspondence traces the decay of both the town's military fabric and the soldiers' morale and effectiveness, and the impossibility of reaching a satisfactory modus vivendi with the leaders of the besieging Moroccan armed forces. The text is supported by a comprehensive biographical dictionary and histories of the rival armed forces.

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