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BG.760.024
13 Oct 1760:12 (289)
London, July 26. Yesterday morning at six o'clock, the
battalion of guards, then on duty in the Tower, consisting
of 936 men, marched out of the garrison, all in high spirits
for Germany, singing as they went, the new ballad of Away to
the Marquis of Granby, at the end of which they huzza'd and
began singing, again, till they reached the borough, where
the inhabitants treated them with wine, punch, beer, or
whatever else they chose to drink, put money in their
pockets, and recommended it to them to give a good account
of the French, which they promised they would, and went off
singing and huzzaing as before; they were to encamp last
night upon Dartford Brim, and proceed this morning to
Gravesend, from whence they are to embark for Germany. . .
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