'Recollections, Military, Naval, & Political, in connection with the latter part of the eighteenth century' by Colonel John Drinkwater, book IV: 'Corsica, Bastia, Calvi, Corte, Bastia', containing chapters 10-13., May 1794-February 1795.
Scope and Contents
The text begins after the siege of Gibraltar (of which there is much discussion), and describes the writer's experiences at Gibraltar, 1787-1789 and later, in France (especially Toulon), 1791, in Elba and Corsica, 1793-1796, and at Naples, 1797, with intervals in England, to the battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797.
Colonel Drinkwater apparently intended to publish at least the earlier part of these as a sequel to his ‘History of the late Siege of Gibraltar’ (London, 1785) (see MS.1842, folio 3).
Dates
- Creation: May 1794-February 1795.
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Extent
236 Leaves
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From the Series: Undetermined
Arrangement
vi + 230 folios.
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