Gunpowder, Government and War in the Mid Eighteenth Century
Details:
- Author(s) West, Jenny W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1991
- Pages 242pp
- Publisher Boydell Press for Royal Historical Society
- Place Published Woodbridge
Topics:
- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Based on London doctoral thesis. Discusses manufacture of gunpowder and provision of it by private sector to government via Board of Ordnance who purchased it, stored it and distributed it, at a time of both war and peace and high and low demand. Provides much information about the Board of Ordnance, the gunpowder industry, the relationship of the two and the Board's move into manufacture for the first time, at Faversham Mills