John Kemble''s Gibraltar Journal - The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831

"The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish âemigrâes so movingly visible in London where they had sought refuge from the tyranny of Ferdinand VII and his suppression of constitutional rights. The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles has always captured our imaginations. Its blend of idealism and daring, of theory and practice, of thought and energy, seems perfectly to fulfill the principles the Apostles steadfastly espoused, a combination of faith and works. The episodes comprised in most accounts of the expedition aresymbolic and filled with intrigue: secret meetings, assumed names, hidden messages, contraband, narrow escapes from the authorities, treachery, and finally a bloody execution on the beach at Mâalaga. A host of newly-discovered documents now enable us to re-examine one of the most intriguing events in British intellectual history"--

Product details

• Authors: E Nye, E. Nye, Eric W. Nye
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2015
• EAN: 9781137384461
• ISBN: 978-1-137-38446-1
• No. of pages: 444
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europa, Militärgeschichte, B, History, Europe, European History, Westeuropa, military history, auseinandersetzen, Western Europe, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Europe—History, History of Military, Literature: history and criticism