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Folio 192: Accounts by James Montresor, chief in engineer at Gibraltar, of journey...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/249/83

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This record is about the Folio 192: Accounts by James Montresor, chief in engineer at Gibraltar, of journey... dating from 1753 Nov-1754 Apr in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 78/249/83
Date
1753 Nov-1754 Apr
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Folio 192: Accounts by James Montresor, chief in engineer at Gibraltar, of journey through Spain and France. Describes fortifications at Barcelona, Figueras, and near the pass of Bellegarde. Refers to troops in Languedoc and Roussillon, to a protestant assembly at Nimes and intervention by Richelieu, to fortifications at Marseilles, to shipping and fortifications at Toulon and to a report from Avignon of the Young Pretender being put in charge of Corsica. He travelled from Lyons to Paris with a Spanish engineer, who had been a prisoner in Algiers and had been received by the Prince de Conti.

Date and place: 1754 Various dates in Nov and Dec 1753 and Feb Mar and Apr 1754.

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Enclosed in f.190.
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