Naval and military memoirs of Great Britain, : from the year 1727, to the present time. /
Beatson, Robert,1742-1818.
London: : Printed for J. Strachan, No 67. Strand; and P. Hill, Edinburgh.,
1790..
Includes errata at the end of volume three.
Robert Beatson (1742-1818), friend of Adam Smith, served in the Royal Engineers in the 1750s but turned his hand to writing after being unable to restart his military career during the American Revolutionary War. This first edition, ending with the events of 1762, is scarcer than the 1804 second edition, which expanded the coverage through to 1783 and the close of the American Revolutionary War.
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England London.