[Rarebooks] fa: ANNUAL REGISTER 1759-62 -4 vols.- re: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and  
Literature, for the Year[s] 1759-1762. London [and] Dublin: Dodsley  
[and others], [various dates, ca. 1773-1789]. Four volumes, 8vo,  
period calf and original publisher's boards; woodcut head- and tail- 
pieces, tables, etc.

A run of four volumes of this influential periodical, edited by Edmund  
Burke, containing a great deal of material on the FRENCH & INDIAN/ 
SEVEN YEARS' WAR, and providing a fascinating month-by-month (often  
day-by-day) contemporary account of the conflict:

	• Expedition to the West-Indies under Hopson and Moore. Account of  
Martinico. Failure there. The cause of it. Guadaloupe invaded.  
Description of that island (etc.).
	• Plan of the campaign in North America... Ticonderoga and Crown  
Point abandoned... Expedition to Niagara...
	• The expedition against Quebec. Description of the town and  
harbour... The battle of Quebec. General Wolfe killed. French  
defeated. M. de Montcalm killed. Quebec surrenders...
	• Gen Wolfe's letter to Mr. Secretary Pitt.
	• Articles of capitulation agreed upon between Gen. Townsend and M.  
Ramzay, Commander of Quebec.
	• Articles of capitulation agreed upon by Captain Paul Demere,  
commanding at Fort Loudon, and th headmen and warriors of the Overhill  
Cherokee towns.
	• State of the English garrison at Quebec [1760]. Quebec besieged...
	• St. Lucia, the Grenades and St. Vincent taken. Preparations for war  
against the Spanish West Indies (etc.).
	• Expedition against the Havannah [Cuba]... Passage through the old  
streights of Bahama... Disposition of the troops. Siege of Fort  
Moro... The Havannah surrenders. Advantages of this acquisition.
	• Treaty with the Indians (Mohawks, Senecas, Delawares, Mohicans, etc.)
	• Papers relating to the final reduction of Canada.
	• Proposals for peace (etc., etc.)
Additionally, there is much material related to the war on the  
Continent...