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Posted on A Howe Woman Celebrates the Glory of the First of June, 1794
The letters of Caroline Howe in the British Library have for the first time revealed the private life of her brother, Adm. Richard Lord Howe, the hero of the Glorious First of June and commander-in-chief of the British fleet in America, 1776-1778. Howe has so baffled naval historians that Sam Willis labelled him “obsessively secretive” […]