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A plea for protection from Captain Jones’s raid
This letter tells the story of a daring attack on a British town during the American Revolutionary War.
Series
Admiralty: Steam Department: In-Letters (Series I)
Catalogue reference: ADM 84
What's it about?
ADM 84
Letters from the Admiralty to the Steam Department.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 84
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Steam Department: In-Letters (Series I)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1850-1859
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Description (What the record is about)
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Letters from the Admiralty to the Steam Department.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other letters are in ADM 85
Registers of the letters are in ADM 86
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Admiralty, Steam Department, 1850-1869
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 20 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1793/
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