The memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a Highland officer, being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland, ...
Ramkins, Alexander,1672-1719?
Defoe, Daniel,1661?-1731,
Corke : printed by and for Thomas Pilkington,
1741.
The final leaf contains 'The publisher to the reader'.
Written in the first person. "Whether there was a real-life Ramkins remains an open question."--Furbank and Owens. The entry in the DNB is apparently entirely based on The memoirs.
Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.
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