LOUDOUN PAPERS. CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF GENERAL JOHN CAMPBELL, 4TH EARL OF LOUDOUN, chiefly as Commander-in-Chief of the expeditionary force sent to assist the Portuguese in 1762. Included also (Add. MS. 44068) are some papers (1742-1745) of Lord Loudoun's kinsman Lt.-Gen. Sir James Campbell, who was killed at Fontenoy. For other papers concerning the campaign of 1762-3 see Add. MSS. 23635, 23644 and 23645, as well as the 'Mémoire de la Campagne de Portugal en 1762' (King's MS. 236). C...
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Charles III of Spain: British diplomatic and military papers rel. to the Spanish invasion of Portugal: 1762-1763. Joseph of Portugal: British diplomatic and military papers rel. to: 1762-1763. John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun; Commander in Chief in N America: Diary, etc., and papers of: 1739...
LOUDOUN PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. i + 84). Copies of military cartels, etc., 1743-1759, and of the convention with Dom João de Almeida de Melo e Castro, 6 May 1762, governing the conditions of service of the British troops in Portugal. English and French. Oblong octavo.
LOUDOUN PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 254). Correspondence with Frederic William Ernest, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe-Bückeburg, Commander-in- Chief of the Allied armies in Portugal; 17 June 1762-18 Mar. 1763. English and Portuguese. Frederick William Ernest, Count of Schaumburg - Lippe - Bückeburg: Corresp...
Vol. VI (ff. 246). 1 Mar. 1739 -9 May 1762. includes: ff. 7-21 Army; England: Papers rel. to operations in the Netherlands and Germany: 1742-1748.f. 11 Captain Charles Mawhood, 18th Light Dragoons: Orders, as Brigade Major, to Lt.-Col. J. Campbell: n.d.f. 12 Frederick William Ernest, Cou...
Vol. VII (ff. 261). 10 May- 20 June 1762. includes: f. 1 William Bogdani, FRS, Clerk at the Ordnance Office: Letter to Lord Loudoun: 1762.ff. 5, 7, 123, 130, 204 James Tierney: Correspondence with Lord Loudoun: 1762.f. 9 James Tierney: Letter to W. Parsons: 1762.ff. 14, 59, 77 Thomas B...
Vol. VIII (ff. 246). 21 June- 31 July 1762. includes: ff. 2, 53, 80 Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1766: Correspondence with Lord Loudoun: 1762.f. 18 James Arnot: Letter to Lord Loudoun: 1762.f. 23 John Calcraft, the elder; Deputy Commissary-General; MP: Correspondence wi...