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Byng Island Conservation Area

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Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Byng Island Conservation Area
Phone:
+1 905-774-5755

Address:
4969 Haldimand Rd. 20, Dunnville, ON N1A 2W8, Canada

Admiral John Byng was a Royal Navy officer who was notoriously court-martialled and executed by firing squad. After joining the navy at the age of thirteen, he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. Over the next thirty years he built up a reputation as a solid naval officer and received promotion to vice-admiral in 1747. He also served as Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland Colony in 1742, Commander-in-Chief, Leith, 1745 to 1746 and was a member of parliament from 1751 until his death. Byng is best known for failing to relieve a besieged British garrison during the Battle of Minorca at the beginning of the Seven Years' War. Byng had sailed for Minorca at the head of a hastily assembled fleet of vessels, some of which were in poor condition. He fought an inconclusive engagement with a French fleet off the Minorca coast, and then elected to return to Gibraltar to repair his ships. Upon return to Britain, Byng was court-martialled and found guilty of failing to do his utmost to prevent Minorca falling to the French. He was sentenced to death and, after pleas for clemency were denied, was shot dead by a firing squad on 14 March 1757.
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