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A book that opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain, are chased, caught and defeated by a fleet commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hawke.

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Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria. Finally, in 1860, he closed it, once and for all. This title presents the diaries of Greville.