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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 less

Autograph signature on Admiralty document : 13 Jan 1779 : (MISC 0482) : appointing Peter Dupuy Abbott "Second Lieutenant of His Majesty's Ship, The Flora, and Lieutenant at Arms"; on vellum; document also signed by John Buller and Henry Penton; countersigned by Philip Stephens, secretary. less

John Chalmers, an officer in the British Navy, kept this journal during a naval expedition to l'Orient, France from September 15-October 29, 1746. The British forces intended to take l'Orient, depot of the French East India Company, but the expedition ended in complete failure. Included are a letter of transmittal to the Duke of Montagu dated December 9, 1746 and a drawing (folio, in color) titled "Sketch of the Ground near l'Orient in Brittany with the Attack made on that Place in Septr. 1746 by the British Forces under the Command of Lieut. General St. Clair." Holograph less