Bibliograph

John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal, The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830–1831, by Eric W. Nye

Type

Label

John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal, The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830–1831, by Eric W. Nye

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

900631414

Responsibility statement

by Eric W. Nye

Series statement

Springer eBooks.

Sub title

The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830–1831

Summary

The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish émigrés so movingly visible in London where they had sought refuge from the tyranny of Ferdinand VII and his suppression of constitutional rights. The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles has always captured our imaginations. Its blend of idealism and daring, of theory and practice, of thought and energy, seems perfectly to fulfill the principles the Apostles steadfastly espoused, a combination of faith and works. The episodes comprised in most accounts of the expedition are symbolic and filled with intrigue: secret meetings, assumed names, hidden messages, contraband, narrow escapes from the authorities, treachery, and finally a bloody execution on the beach at Málaga. A host of newly-discovered documents now enable us to re-examine one of the most intriguing events in British intellectual history.--, Provided by publisher

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