Admiralty Office to Purvis, Off Cadiz, most secret, 22 January 1808, Castlereagh's instructions to Major General Spencer, Ceuta
Admiralty Office to Purvis, Off Cadiz, most secret, 22 January 1808, Castlereagh's instructions to Major General Spencer, Ceuta
Record Details
| Item reference: | PRV/52/3; MS1973/125 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | 1808-01-22 |
| Creator: | Purvis, John Child |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Purvis's general description of the Azores, 1808 (Manuscript) (PRV/52/1)
- Lord Castlereagh, Downing Street, to Major General Spencer, Falmouth, 15 January 1808, (copy), land battle information (Manuscript) (PRV/52/2)
- Admiralty Office to Purvis, Off Cadiz, most secret, 22 January 1808, Castlereagh's instructions to Major General Spencer, Ceuta (Manuscript) (PRV/52/3)
- Captain Oswald, HMS PHOEBE, Off Gibraltar, to Purvis, 28 January 1808, proposed attack on Ceuta, 1746-1825 (Manuscript) (PRV/52/4)
- Extract, letter by Captain Paget, CAMBRIAN at Sea, Finisterre, 16 February 1808, mentioning Purvis, from "the Paget brothers 1790-1840" ed.j Murray. (Manuscript) (PRV/52/5)
- Admiralty Office to Purvis, Off Cadiz, 24 February 1808, re defence of Gibraltar. Secret (Manuscript) (PRV/52/6)
- Sir H Dalrymple to Purvis, Gibraltar, blockade of Ceuta, 2 March 1808, [secret], blockade of Ceuta (Manuscript) (PRV/52/7)
- Sir S Smith, HMS FOUDROYANT, Off Gibraltar, to Purvis, Off Cadiz, 9 March 1808, enemy ships are directed to rendezvous off Tunis. Secret (Manuscript) (PRV/52/8)
- Castlereagh, London, to Purvis, Off Cadiz, 9 March 1808, warning the Spanish Royal Family from capture by Napoleon. Secret (Manuscript) (PRV/52/9)
- Sir Dalrymple, Gibraltar, to Purvis, Off Cadiz, 12 March 1808, [secret] Ceuta post. (Manuscript) (PRV/52/10)
- General Spencer, Gibraltar, to Purvis, Off Cadiz, 12 March 1808, [secret] proposed attack on Ceuta (Manuscript) (PRV/52/11)
- Admiralty Office to Purvis, Off Cadiz, 22 March 1808, [secret] orders to protect convoys in straits of Gibraltar (Manuscript) (PRV/52/12)
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