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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: MS 101

Contains 38 Results:

[Description of a skirmish near Bethune], 24 August 1710

 File — Box: 1, Folder: B1
Scope and Contents

"This morning the Right Wing of Prince Eugene's Army...a pracel of Forragers with no other weapons than their Sythes." Item appears to have been previously enclosed in folder A5 but came to Spencer Research Library with the Richard P. Bond collection. 3 pages (1 sheet), with stylistic corrections.

Dates: 24 August 1710

Diplomatic notebook, 1727-1730?

 File — Box: 1, Folder: D1
Scope and Contents Copies of memoranda pertaining to dipomatic discussions of Hanoverian Alliance. Leaves 2-5: Memoires pour servir d'instruction a Messieurs Sutton & Armstrong, sur un Plan des Operations a faire par les Allies. Leaves 6-14 include a letter from H. [Horatio, Baron Walpole (1678-1757)] Walpole and J. Armstrong to the Duke of Newcastle, dated 21 April 1727 [New Style], Paris, France: conferred in Versailles with Cardinal [Fleury], Berwick, de Morville, agreeing that...
Dates: 1727-1730?