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Title: Mr. Wood's Proposals about stationing Men of War. (docket title)
Author: Wood, William, 1679-1765
All Contributors: Wood, William, 1679-1765 (Author)
Place of Origin: London (England)
Date: 1746
Series Heading: M95. Wood, Mr., fl. 1746
Geography: West Indies, Unspecified
Subject: Louisbourg (N.S.) -- History -- Siege, 1745, United States -- History -- King George's War, 1744-1748 -- Casualities, Great Britain -- Royal Navy, West Indies, British, West Indies -- History
Notes: "In order to prevent Every one of the many Inconveniencies... on account of the French Fleet... and the Squadron under Mr. Martin's Command having missed meeting with them... It is Proposed..." Jean Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Marquis de Roucy, Duc D'Anville (1709-1746) led an ill-fated fleet in 1746 to recover Louisbourg (cf. Dictionary of Canadian Biography III:356). These proposals were written after D'Anville's fleet had sailed from Brest on 22 June but before word of its disastrous end (in September of that year) had reached London. William Martin (1696?-1756) commanded Britain's North Sea fleet at the time. The author was sufficiently informed about the Royal Navy to know the disposition of its ships throughout the world., Original digital object name: bei-m095, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

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