Name

Chapter 15 — The Extraction

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

Part

Part III: Rank Is but a Guinea Stamp

Type

Chapter