The expedition against Rochefort fully stated and considered In a letter to the Right Honourable the author of the Candid reflexions on the Report of the general officers, &c. By a country Gentleman.
Place Published: London
Publisher: Printed and Sold by J.Towers
Date Published: 1758
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Disbound
SEVEN YEARS’ WAR / FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1754-1763) BOOK
Second edition with additions. 5 x 8 inches. (2), [3]- 66pp. (2) Disbound with no half-title page. Price on title page: (Price 1s. 6d.)
Pages 60-63 deal with the war in America.
Criticism of the ill fated attempt by the British to take the port of Rochefort in France in Piccadilly. Country gentleman = Thomas Potter, ’The candid reflexions’ is by Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland.
Blame for the failure of the expedition on commanding officer, Sir John Mordaunt. Very good condition.
ESTC T33817
The Seven Years War was a global conflict which ran from 1754 until 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies. The war escalated from a regional conflict between Great Britain and France in North America, known today as the French and Indian War.
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