British army colonial manuscripts, ca. 1752-1807.

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British army colonial manuscripts, ca. 1752-1807.

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A collection of papers relating to British colonial forces during the late eighteenth century. Included are orders, receipts for supplies, inventories, letters by officers such as Jeffery Amherst and James Abercromby and other similiar materials. A majority of the materials pertain to British forces in America during the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. One item of particular interest is a statement showing the provisions necessary to maintain one corporal and eleven privates for one month.

2 boxes.

American Periodical Series I

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SNAC Resource ID: 6712721

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Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

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British army officer. From the description of Papers of Jeffery Amherst, Baron Amherst, 1759-1762. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062467 English field-marshal. From the description of Document signed : Office of Ordnance [London], 1773 Mar. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132562 Army officer and governor general of British North America. From the description of Jeffery Amherst, Baron Amherst, papers, 1759. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Great Britain. Army

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Whitmore was govenor of Cape Breton Island and the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island). From the description of Receipt for wages paid for labor in the Cape Breton colliery : manuscript, 1760. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612812416 Administrative history unavailable. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire military papers. From the description of Great Britain Army collection. [1800-1941]. (University o...

Great Britain. Army. Colonial Forces

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Abercromby, James, 1706-1781

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Army general, second in command of the British forces in America, 1756-1758, and commander of the Albany, N.Y., garrison. From the description of Letter : Albany, [N.Y.], to Sir Wm. Johnson, 1757 Dec. 27. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 35988285 British army officer. From the description of James Abercromby correspondence, 1758. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449865 In 1756 James Abercromby was appointed second in command to John Campbell, 4th ...