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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A review of the military operations in North-America : from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia, in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756. : Interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes; necessary to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general; and more especially into the political management of affairs in New-York. : In a letter to a nobleman.

Accession number
PML 3693
Creator
Smith, William, 1728-1793.
Published
New-York: : Printed by Alexander and James Robertson,, MDCCLXX. [1770]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
A defense of William Shirley's conduct of operations.
Attributed to William Smith in: McAnear, Beverly. "American imprints concerning King's College." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 44 (1950): 334-335. Attributed to William Livingston Smith and John Morin Scott in the Dictionary of American Biography.
Errors in paging: p. 66, 71 misnumbered 71, 59.
First edition, London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1757.
With a half-title.
Description
170 p. ; 22 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
1/2 brown morocco.
Classification
Department