Account of the French invasion of the British coast, after February 1744 : contemporary manuscript copy.

Record ID: 
418063
Accession number: 
MA 9903
Description: 
1 item (3 pages) ; 32.3 x 20.3 cm
Notes: 

Part of a collection of documents bearing on the Jacobite risings, 1715, 1745, including some items removed from Lang's Prince Charles Edward and others removed from the American Stamp Act Collection.
In an unknown hand.

Summary: 

Relating the details of Sir John Norris' defense of the British coast, Marischal Saxe at Dunkirk, the loss of the French fleet in a violent storm at sea and the decision by the French to abandon the invasion.