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Title:
PRO 30/55/020/080 - Autograph Letter from L V Fuser to Sir Henry Clinton
Date:
1779
Language:
English
Date from:
1779-12-12
Date to:
1779-12-12
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/020/080
Full Description:
Lieutenant Colonel L V Fuser to Clinton. St Augustine. By the enclosed your Excellency will see that Lieutenant Colonel Dixon has been taken with all our troops on the Mississippi River by Don H Galvez Governor of New Orleans. But by Captain William Thompson, Commander of the privateer brig the 'Gayton', we learn that Dixon was obliged to capitulate for want of provisions. He told us also that the Spanish forces were composed for the most part of 'militia, blacks and mullattoes'. The despatch goes on to discuss, should we receive a similar visit from Havana, Prevost being deaf to representations, and most of the planters retaking their 'negroes' from the King's works.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16266146
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_20_80