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Folios 236-237: Charles Papps Price, HMS Badger, Isles St Marcou [Îles Saint-Marcouf]....

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2317/91

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This record is about the Folios 236-237: Charles Papps Price, HMS Badger, Isles St Marcou [Îles Saint-Marcouf].... dating from 1798 May 22 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ADM 1/2317/91
Date
1798 May 22
Description

Folios 236-237: Charles Papps Price, HMS Badger, Isles St Marcou [Îles Saint-Marcouf]. Reply to letter dated 15 May 1798 enclosing a copy of a letter from Mr Crew acquainting their Lordship's that an Engineer was ordered to proceed to St Marcou [Saint-Marcouf] to put the Blockhouses in repair. States as the Engineer is coming he spoke yesterday to Sir Richard John Strachan that in his opinion that three long 24 pounders on Colonel Eveliegh's circular housing platforms were placed in the North, South & West angles of the Western redoubt in place of the three Carronades it would add greatly to the defenceFolios 238-239: enclosure with folios 236-237. Letter dated 22 May 1798 by Richard Bourne, HMS Sandfly, St Marcou [Saint-Marcouf], to Captain Charles Papps Price, Senior Officer at the Isles St Marcou [Îles Saint-Marcouf]. Letter suggesting three long 24 pounders on Colonel Eveliegh's circular housing platforms

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Former department reference
Cap P269
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Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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Letters from Captains, Surnames P: 1798, numbers 151-322. (Described at item level)

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Folios 236-237: Charles Papps Price, HMS Badger, Isles St Marcou [Îles Saint-Marcouf]....

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