William Tryon And The Course Of Empire A Life In British Imperial Service Paul David Nelson by Paul David Nelson 9781469639512, 1469639513 instant download after payment.

William Tryon, British army officer and royal governor of North

Carolina and New York in the years preceding

the American

Revolution, was an important participant in the events leading to

Englands loss of her thirteen

mainland colonies to republican

revolutionaries. His life history is interesting in and of itself, but it

also

highlights larger scholarly issues that have engaged many

historians of the Revolutionary era in recent years.

First, his career

as a faithful and talented supporter of Crown prerogatives during the

1760s and 1770s is a

useful case study of British administrative

ineptitude that supplements other works covering the same topic.

Although Tryon shrewdly warned officials in London that it was

impossible for Britain to maintain peaceful

control over America if

ministers and monarch refused to make timely concessions on

questions of direct

taxation, his admonitions went unheeded.

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