William Wickham, Master Spy: The Secret War Against the French Revolution

by Michael Durey

Overview

A biography of William Wickham (1761-1840), Britain's master spy on the Continent for more than five years during the French Revolutionary wars. It follows Wickham's career to narrate the rise and fall of his secret service community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138663770
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Series:	The Enlightenment World
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Entering the Maze; Chapter 2 Defending the Constitution, 1792-4; Chapter 3 ‘Save France, Monsieur, and Immortalize England': The First Great Plan, 1795; Chapter 4 ‘Exaggerated Dimensions and an Unnatural Appearance’: Plotting Regime Change in France, 1796-7; Chapter 5 The Green Great Game, January 1798-June 1799; Chapter 6 ‘Going Full Gallop, with Our Swords Drawn’: Wickham's Second European Mission, 1799-1801; Chapter 7 ‘When Great Men Fall out’: Ireland, 1802-4; Chapter 8 Out in the Cold, 1804-40;