Papers re: sighting and engaging with French frigates.
Papers re: sighting and engaging with French frigates, and the French and Spanish Fleets, 1779-1781, including: letter from Cornish, 3 September 1779, re: the sighting of the French and Spanish fleets; copy letter from Rear Admiral Sir S Hood to Rear Admiral Graves, 10 September 1781, re: the French Fleet; 'Extracts of orders sent to different Commanders...' to look for the French Fleet off Cape Finistere, 31 December; and a letter from JH Holloway to Lieutenant Keith, 21 November, re: French frigates
Record Details
| Item reference: | MID/10/10; MS94/010 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 4 items |
| Date made: | 1779 - 1781 |
| Creator: | Middleton, Charles |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Memoranda, lists, accounts and extracts from letters relating to the American War of Independence. (Manuscript) (MID/10/1)
- Memoranda, lists, copies of correspondence, 1783-1793, papers regarding signals, 1788 and ROYAL GEORGE, 1787. (Manuscript) (MID/10/2)
- Lists and memoranda concerning the Revolutionary War. (Manuscript) (MID/10/3)
- Notes, memoranda, return, extract from public letter and account concerning the Napoleonic War. (Manuscript) (MID/10/4)
- Drafts of orders & statements. (Manuscript) (MID/10/5)
- Drafts of orders & statements. (Manuscript) (MID/10/6)
- Plans of Battles, Dispositions of Fleets. (Manuscript) (MID/10/7)
- Movements of the Fleet 1805-1806 kept for Lord Barham by JDT. (Manuscript) (MID/10/8)
- Instructions to William Cornwallis, Admiral of the White, from the Admiralty. (Manuscript) (MID/10/9)
- Papers re: sighting and engaging with French frigates. (Manuscript) (MID/10/10)
- Signal book. (Manuscript) (MID/10/11)
- Errors of the Campaign of 1782. (Manuscript) (MID/10/12)
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