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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
Works about Byng
- Admiral Forbes's reasons for not signing Admiral Byng's Death Warrant
- Candide (1759) by Voltaire, references Byng and his execution
- "Byng, John (1704-1757)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Byng, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
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