[3 documents relating to British involvement in Germany and the Low Countries, 1743-1748]

[3 documents relating to British involvement in Germany and the Low Countries, 1743-1748]

[London et al.] 1743-1748

3 items ; 31-33 cm.

MSS L1997F182

Thomas O. Hunter was deputy paymaster of the forces in Flanders during this period.
Docketed titles. See contents note below
Number 1 from Spire [i.e. Speyer?], 23 Sept. 1743, concerns cavalry and foot strength at Germersheim in the Palatinate as well as physical description of the countryside; reports of the French troops based on French deserters' accounts. Also reports injury of Col. Mentzel during his attempt to destroy the magazine at Landau and predicts the departure of the Hanovarians. Urges timely selection of winter quarters and encloses 2 orders of battle (not present).
Number 2 concerns payment for troops Hanovarian troops in the Low Countries (3,000 Horse and 5,000 foot) and the need for supplemental forces.
Number 3, in French ("fait en double a La Haye", 21 Dec. 1748) lists 6 categories of expenses incurred by Hanovarian troops during the Rhine campaign of 1743. Total cost in sterling: 73,186.4 1/2. Refers to affadavits by QM General Bland, General Ligonier, and others.
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Contents: Copy of a letter from an [unidentified] officer in ye King's Army, 23 Sept. 1743 (no. 1) -- Proposals for furnishing a body of the troops of Hanover ... 1746 (no. 2) -- Copy of the liquidated amount of the Elector Palatine's demand for wood & straw &ca furnished to the British army upon the Rhine in the campaign 1743 ... 21 Dec. 1748 (no. 3)
Watermark: Pro patria; GR (#1, 3); IV (#2) [see Gravell, T. Foreign watermarks, no. 68]

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