Gordon Gallie MacDonald memoir

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{"value"=>"Gordon Gallie MacDonald memoir"}

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{"value"=>"1745-1831", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1745/1831"}

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abstract

{"value"=>"Gordon Gallie MacDonald, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, wrote this memoir about the years 1745-1831. The memoir includes information about his ancestry; an account of the battle at Culloden; his father's service with General John Burgoyne at the Battles of Saratoga; his own service in the British navy; the War of 1812; attacks on Baltimore, New Orleans, and other cities; pirates in the West Indies; the slave trade; and a cruise to South America, Africa, and Mauritius. The memoir also includes an account of Ossian poems, a letter on corporal punishment in the Navy, and comments on navy ordnance"}

date_inclusive_start

1745

date_inclusive_end

1831

origination

{"value"=>"MacDonald, Gordon Gallie", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-220</p>"}

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1745

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{"value"=>"Gordon Gallie MacDonald memoir, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

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.21 linear feet (1 volume)

date_start

1745

date_end

1831

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