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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19383
Date: 1976 May 06 - 1985 May 02
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Item
Folio 75: "A Report on the cavalry of the Royal Volunteers under the command of Major-General...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/69/17
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This record is about the Folio 75: "A Report on the cavalry of the Royal Volunteers under the command of Major-General... dating from 1769 [June] in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 89/69/17
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1769 [June]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Folio 75: "A Report on the cavalry of the Royal Volunteers under the command of Major-General Smith." Highly critical in every respect. "The officers disunited by their convent intrigues which seem their only study, and the soldiers from women and wine seem to have totally debilitated themselves, and by idleness have lost all life and spirit.".
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Unsigned. Enclosure to f.73. Copy.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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SP 89
Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal
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William Henry Lyttelton, Sir John Hort and John Whitehead
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