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In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British General Sir William Howe and Richard Admiral Lord Howe, in a London drawing room for half a dozen Games of Chess. But as historian Julie Flavell reveals, these meetings were about much more than board games: they were cover for a last-ditch attempt to forestall the outbreak of the American War of Independence. Aware that the distinguished Howe family, both the men and the women, have been known solely for the military exploits of the brothers, Flavell investigated the letters of Caroline Howe, which have been blatantly overlooked since the nineteenth century. Using revelatory documents and this correspondence, The Howe Dynasty provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of one of Englands most famous military families across four wars. Contemporaries considered the Howes impenetrable and intensely privateor, as Horace Walpole called them, brave and silent. Flavell traces their roots to modest beginnings at Langar Hall in rural Nottinghamshire and highlights the Georgian phenomenon of the politically involved aristocratic woman. In fact, the early careers of the brothersGeorge, Richard, and Williamcan be c

Author

Flavell, Julie, author

Publisher

New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631490613

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (83 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14