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Add MS 42520
- Record Id:
- 032-002003096
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002003096
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000037.0x000224
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 42520
- Title:
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THE SIEGE OF MINORCA: 'A Treatise Concerning the Siege and Surrender of the Garrison of St Philips in the Island of Minorca to the French. A.D.1756...',being the diary of ananonymous eyewitness (on the English side) for the period 17 Apr.-28 June 1756 (ff. 2-40), followed by tables summarising (a) the total number of casualties, arranged under regiments (f. 40b), (b) the strengths of regiments at the beginning of the siege (f. 41), and (c) the quantities of ammunition expended (ff. 41-42). Printed, 3-2
with some rewording and omissions, in the Gentleman's Magazine, xxvii, 1757, pp. 9-18. Another manuscript narrative of the siege, by Major William Cuninghame, engineer of the fortress, is in the Royal United Service Institution, MS. MM. 226, 227 (cf. Journ. Soc. for Army Historical Research, xxviii, 1950, pp. 133-135, and Bull. Inst. Hist. Research, xxiii, 1950, pp. 182-n190. For another journal, covering the period 16 Apr.-27 June 1756, cf. Hodgson's sale-cat., 19-20 June 1958, lot 168. Paper; ff. 42. Duodecimo. A.D. 1756.
- Scope & Content:
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Island of Minorca: Diary, etc., of the siege of St Philips in: 1756.
Diaries and Memoranda: Diary, etc., of siege of St Philips, Minorca: 1756.
Army; England: Diary, etc., of siege of St Philips, Minorca: 1756.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002003096
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002003096
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1756
- End Date:
- 1756
- Date Range:
- 1756
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Army of England
- Places:
- Minorca, Spain