British Army, 15 manuscript memoranda on military subjects, bound in a volume, 1760s-80s, half calf

BRITISH ARMY, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

A group of 15 manuscript memoranda and reports, comprising:

i. "Lt. Col. Campbell's Report concerning the Island of Jersey 1763"; ii. copies of three letters by Joseph Smith reporting on the progress of war against Hyder Ali in Madras, with a hand-drawn and coloured plan of the Battle of Tiruvannamalai, 27 September to 7 October 1767; iii. William Roy, report to Lord Barrington concerning the Barracks in Jersey and Guernsey, signed by Roy, 3 October 1775; iv. Col. W. Dundas, memorandum on the defence of Ireland in the event of war with France, 27 March 1778; v. "Extracts from a Paper on the measurement of vertical heights by means of the Barometer", with scattered revisions; vi. address by William Roy to King George III requesting command of a regiment, c.1765; vii. memoranda on surveying observations in France and Portugal; viii. draft letter on calculating the exact location of Lisbon, 15 March 1790; ix. John Bruce, representation on Dutch and other shipping traffic around Shetland; x. draft letter on hygrometry, 9 June 1783; xi. meteorological observations in Lisbon, 1783-85; xii. Patrick Miller, copy letter to the Lord Advocate of Scotland on the cannonade, 1 June 1779; xiii. report on possible locations for military camps in Essex and Kent with sample permission letter, 1779; xiv. observations by George Graham and Colin Campbell on the working of a chronometer in London and Jamaica; xv. memorandum on "the Difficulties the [North American] Colonies must be under for Funds, with which to procure Foreign Necessaries" with related military advice in the early period of the Revolutionary War, 13 October 1776; all bound together in a single volume, 226 numbered pages, folio, half calf over marbled boards