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Account of the French invasion of the British coast, after February 1744 : contemporary manuscript copy.

BIB_ID
418063
Accession number
MA 9903
Display Date
Place not specified, after February 1744.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 32.3 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of documents bearing on the Jacobite risings, 1715, 1745, including some items removed from Lang's Prince Charles Edward and others removed from the American Stamp Act Collection.
In an unknown hand.
Summary
Relating the details of Sir John Norris' defense of the British coast, Marischal Saxe at Dunkirk, the loss of the French fleet in a violent storm at sea and the decision by the French to abandon the invasion.