Author:John Byng

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John Byng (1704–1757)

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Royal Navy officer who was executed for failing to "do his utmost" to retain the island of Minorca in the Seven Years' War.

John Byng

Works

• Admiral John Byng's account of the Battle of Minorca ‎(1756)

About

• Candide (1759) by Voltaire, references Byng and his execution
• “Byng, John (1704-1757),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• “Byng, John” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

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