Collection of 15 manuscript documents, pertaining to British military matters in 1763-1790

Collection of 15 manuscript documents, pertaining to British military matters in 1763-1790

[S.l.] 1763-1790

226 p., [1] hand colored folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.

MSS L2019F76 [Bound]

The compiler of the volume is not identified.|Includes the reports regarding the military and financial situation of the American colonies in 1775, the defense of Britain and Ireland at the time of the French-American alliance in 1778, and several pieces on meteorological instruments and observations.|Some pages blank.|Contents: [1]. "Lt. Col. Campbell's Report concerning the Island of Jersey 1763" -- [2]. Copies of three letters by Joseph Smith reporting on the progress of war against Hyder Ali in Madras, with a hand-drawn and coloured plan of the Battle of Tiruvannamalai, 27 September to 7 October 1767 -- [3]. William Roy, report to Lord Barrington concerning the Barracks in Jersey and Guernsey, signed by Roy, 3 October 1775 -- [4]. Col. W. Dundas, memorandum on the defence of Ireland in the event of war with France, 27 March 1778 -- [5]. "Extracts from a Paper on the measurement of vertical heights by means of the Barometer", with scattered revisions -- [6]. Address by William Roy to King George III requesting command of a regiment, c.1765 -- [7]. Memoranda on surveying observations in France and Portugal -- [8]. Draft letter on calculating the exact location of Lisbon, 15 March 1790 -- [9]. John Bruce, representation on Dutch and other shipping traffic around Shetland -- [10]. Draft letter on hygrometry, 9 June 1783 -- [11]. Meteorological observations in Lisbon, 1783-85 -- [12]. Patrick Miller, copy letter to the Lord Advocate of Scotland on the cannonade, 1 June 1779 -- [13]. Report on possible locations for military camps in Essex and Kent with sample permission letter, 1779 -- [14]. Observations by George Graham and Colin Campbell on the working of a chronometer in London and Jamaica -- [15]. Memorandum on "the Difficulties the [North American] Colonies must be under for Funds, with which to procure Foreign Necessaries" with related military advice in the early period of the revolutionary war, 13 October 1776.|Bound in half calf over marbled boards.|From the Cottesloe Military Library

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