Talk:John Byng

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Contents 1 comment 2 Sources 3 Merging 4 Bibliographic notes

[edit] comment

A good article. The phrasing "a well-established Admiral with a rising and stellar career" needs to adopt a single focus. Perhaps the verbatim repetitions of the material in the precis could be expanded rather than repeated. --Wetman 10:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

There are several good sources about John Byng and the Battle of Minorca available on the web. [1] is from The Royal Navy: a History from the earliest times to the present, published in 1897 (if I understand correctly [2]), so it's probably in public domain. There is also an article from the British Royal Naval Museum [3], and a text about the painting from the National Maritime Museum [4]. Google [5] returns namy more useful sources. Zocky | picture popups 12:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging

"The severity of the penalty and the suspicion that he was used as a scapegoat led in time to a reaction in favour of Byng. It became a commonplace to say that he was put to death for an error of judgment. The execution was also satirized by Voltaire in Candide."

We have the above then a section in aftermarth with the same statement. One or other should be removed as it feels like 'deja vu' at the momentAlci12 18:02, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bibliographic notes

The notes here are fantastic and I applaud whoever added them all; perhaps, however, there is a way to shrink the font or link to a source where they're collected in the same manner? I offer it as a purely stylistic suggestion. 142.177.124.155 23:29, 10 September 2006 (UTC)