The great defiance

Author David Veevers Published by Ebury Press ISBN 9781529109955 EAN 9781529109955 Bic Code HBG|HBLH Cover Hardback

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From ill-advised ventures in Ireland to the failure to curtail North African Corsair states all the way to the collapse of commercial operations in East Asia, British attempts to create an imperial enterprise often ended in embarrassment and even disaster. In this book, David Veevers looks beyond the myths of triumph and into the realities of British misadventures in the early days of Empire, meeting the extraordinary people across the world who were the real forces to be reckoned with.