Last Days of English Tangier: The Out Letter Book of Governor Percy - Kirke, 16811683: Volume

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgement; Abbreviations; Introduction; Editorial Principles; The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681-1683; Appendix A: Biographies; Appendix B: Officers Commanding English Tangier; Appendix C: British Military Units in Tangier; Appendix D: Moroccan Armed Forces; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

Governor Percy Kirke's Out-Letter Book is a valuable source for the last days of English Tangier. It contains 152 official letters mostly dealing with the town's decay and the Moroccan siege. This volume presents an annotated transcription of the Book along with a biographical dictionary and histories of the rival English and Moroccan armed forces.

Product details

• Authors: John (University of Leeds) Childs
• Assisted by: John Childs (Editor), John (University of Leeds) Childs (Editor), Childs John (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009446747
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0944674-7
• No. of pages: 490
• Series: Camden Fifth Series; Camden Fifth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, military history, Morocco, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Tangier, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Battles & campaigns, Specific wars and campaigns, C 1600 To C 1700, c 1680 to c 1689, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General