Historyzine 007: 1702, Admiral Rooke attacks Cadiz

In this episode we explore the phrase to gird your loins. We examine the case of Admiral Byng who was executed to encourage the others and we interview Tony Cox of the Binge Thinking History Podcast. There’s a shout out for a splendid forum at . I hope to meet up with some of you on there. In our section on the War of the Spanish Succession we continue to follow the events of 1702. We follow Admiral Rooke into Cadiz and then ponder the black-hearted treachery of Max Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. If you wish to comment on the podcasts then please visit the website, historyzine.com or visit the contact page and leave me an email using the contact form there.

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Historyzine 007: 1702, Admiral Rooke attacks Cadiz is an episode from Historyzine: The History Podcast by Jim Mowatt.

This episode is 35:58 long.

This episode was published on Feb 27, 2008.

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