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Title:
PRO 30/55/032/066 - Copy Letter from Earl Cornwallis to Sir H Clinton
Date:
1781
Language:
English
Date from:
1781-08-31
Date to:
1781-08-31
Section:
2 : PRO 30/55 - British Army Headquarters Papers
TNA Shelfmark:
PRO 30/55/032/066
Full Description:
Cornwallis to Clinton. York, Virginia. A French ship of the line with two frigates and the Loyalist which they have taken, lay at the mouth of this river. A Lieutenant of the 'Charon' who went with an escort of dragoons to Old Point Comfort reports that there are between thirty and forty sail within the Capes, mostly ships of war and some of them very large. Two copies of the document, one in part cypher.
TNA Link:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16305393
Format:
Handwritten
DOI:
10.1163/37612_WNA_PRO_PRO_30_55_32_66