Diary, ca. 1833.

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Diary, ca. 1833.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50098956

Signed by James Scott Melville, the diary, measuring about 17 x 10 cm., is bound in marbled paper. Only half of the book is filled with entries. The first 68 pages are unnumbered, containing two accounts of trials for treason of French military officers in 1815 Paris, Melville's miscellaneous address notes, his record of an 1833 trial in Genessee County, N.Y., and entries about his own voyage to Quebec. Succeeding pages are numbered by hand in ink, from 1 to 150 in the upper right corners, to be filled in as a reading list, left mostly empty.

1 item ; 17 x 10 cm.

Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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SNAC Resource ID: 7619772

Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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Watt, Captain.

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Melville, James Scott.

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Although earlier and later dates are suggested in a few entries, James Scott Meliville's diary seems primarily to record his emigration in 1833 from New York State, to Boston, and from there by sea to Quebec, on the Brig Mars out of Liverpool, under the command of Captain Watt. From the description of Diary, ca. 1833. (Texas A&M University). WorldCat record id: 50098956 ...

Ney, Michel, duc d'Elchingen, 1769-1815

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Michel Ney was one of 18 Marshals of France under Napoleon. He participated in the French invasion of and retreat from Russia in 1812 and earned himself the nickname of "Le Rougeaud, le Brave des Braves" (the bravest of the brave) from Napoleon. He was named the 1st Due d'Elchingen (1805) and 1st Prince de la Moskowa (1813) by Napoleon. Ney assisted in the effort to depose Napoleon, sided with the restoration of the monarchy and Louis XVIII. When Napoleon again assumed his position as Emperor, N...

Mars (Brig)

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