Chapter 15 — And Still They Served
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- Book Chapters
- Name
- Chapter 15 — And Still They Served
- Description
- What the island gave and what it got back. Manx men pressed into naval service, the Fencibles raised for wars that were not theirs. The harbour that killed fishermen because no one maintained it. Revenue extracted, nothing returned. The arithmetic of empire applied to a community of thirty thousand.
- Period
- 1765–1815
- Key Figures
- Key figures: Captain John Quilliam, the Manx Fencibles, the Trafalgar wounded
- Caesar Bacon
- Thomas Crellin
- A.W. Moore
- Hugh Bainbridge
- David Christian (Trafalgar)
- Edward Crow
- John Cockrane
- British Garrison (post-Revestment)
- Captain John Quilliam
- Manx Fencibles
- John Taggant
- Major Paul Crebbin
- Lieutenant Hawkes
- Norris Moore
- James Drinkwater
- Patrick Cannell
- John Cawle
- Places
- Douglas
- Castletown
- Peel
- Castle Rushen
- Kirk Maughold
- Onchan
- Ohio Settlements
- Isle of Man
- London
- Liverpool
- Dublin
- Institutions & Families
- House of Keys
- Manx Fencibles
- British Garrison (post-Revestment)
- Diocese of Sodor and Man
- The Christian Family
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