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NYG(W.762.081
18 Oct 1762:11,12 (201)
Copy of a letter from a gentleman in the Army under Col.
Amherst, at Newfoundland, to another in New-York, dated
September 1762, as brought by the Gosport.
. . . [4 paragraphs on military maneuvers]
[Description of preparations for mortar firing]
. . . and they began to play them from about eleven o'clock,
and did not cease diverting the Monsieurs in the Fort till
about ten o'clock next morning, when a Drum was heard, and
an officer marching towards one of our posts, where he was
stopped 'til Col. Amherst was acquainted.
. . . [25 lines on the capitulation negotiations]
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