Edward Gibbon
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Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1
Portrait by Henry Walton, 1773
Magdalen College, Oxford
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Portchester Castle came under Gibbon's command for a brief period while he was an officer in the South Hampshire Militia.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, sometimes shortened to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. The six volumes cover
Edward Gibbon
…Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was a British essayist, historian and politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, to critical and commercial success. It is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use…
Title page from John Quincy Adams's copy of the third edition (1777)
The Goths in Italy by Paul Falconer Poole, 1851