George II (Penguin Monarchs)

George II (Penguin Monarchs)
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Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9780141978437
ISBN-13 : 0141978430
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Download or read book George II (Penguin Monarchs) written by Norman Davies and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744.


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