A memorial, containing a summary view of facts, with their authorities, in answer to the Observations sent by the English ministry to the courts of Europe [microform] /
Moreau, Jacob Nicolas,1717-1804.
Washington, George,1732-1799.
Cumberland, William Augustus,Duke of,1721-1765.
Napier, Robert,-1766.
Philadelphia : Printed, by James Chattin,
1757.
The French original (Mémoire contenant le précis des falts [etc.]) was published at Paris by the French government in 1756 as a justification of the war with England. In it were included documents captured from the British at Fort Necessity and at Braddock's defeat.
"The journal of Major Washington [March 31-June 27, 1754]": p. 124-173.
"A letter written by Colonel Napier, and sent to General Braddock, by order of the Duke of Cumberland [dated London, Nov. 25, 1754]": p. 202-209. It was this letter which called forth the ironical defence of the Duke of Cumberland, published at London in 1756 under the title: Reasons humbly offered, to prove, that the letter printed at the end of the French Memorial of justificatio, is a French forgery and falsely ascribed to His. R--l H--ss.
Sabin 47812.
Sabin Group 68.
Microfiche.
Braddock's Campaign, 1755.