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Middleton, C. Richard was born on April 1, 1941 in Scunthorpe, England. Arrived in Ireland, 1967. Son of John Richard Middleton and Ruby Ada Rich.
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'Our Bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victory', wrote Horace Walpole after receiving news of Wolfe's victory at Quebec in October 1759. Traditional accounts of the Seven Years' War have emphasized the contribution of the Elder Pitt to the success of Britain in Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, India and the Far East. The Bells of Victory argues that such a view is misguided and that, far from exercising single-handed control, Pitt's influence was necessarily circumscribed. The margin between military success and failure was extremely small, and the British authorities worked within constraints imposed by constitutional propriety and political expediency. Effective government action was the result of teamwork by many individuals in the diverse fields of diplomacy, politics, finance, the army, navy, ordnance and commissariat.
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Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. * Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography * Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and women * Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial development * Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies
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Middleton, C. Richard was born on April 1, 1941 in Scunthorpe, England. Arrived in Ireland, 1967. Son of John Richard Middleton and Ruby Ada Rich.
Bachelor with honors, University Exeter, England, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Exeter, England, 1969. Postgraduate, University College London, 1963—1964.
Lecturer Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland, 1967—1972, 1974—1986, senior lecturer, 1986—1993, reader in American history, since 1993.
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('Our Bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victory',...)
Member of Irish Association for American Studies (committee member since 1990), Organization American Historians.