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Boyd to Holdernesse: the enemy have abandoned Paderborn, Lippstadt, Münster and Cassel,...

Catalogue reference: SP 87/30/8

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This record is about the Boyd to Holdernesse: the enemy have abandoned Paderborn, Lippstadt, Münster and Cassel,... dating from 30 March 1758 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Military Expeditions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SP 87/30/8
Date
30 March 1758
Description

Boyd to Holdernesse: the enemy have abandoned Paderborn, Lippstadt, Münster and Cassel, and are fortifying Wesel. Capture of Soest. He quotes from the account of an action performed at Lipsberg by Lieutenant Brunsing of the Hanoverian Hunters [Jäger] and an extract of a report from the duke of Holstein. Boyd may have to leave the army to settle last year's forage account. Dated at headquarters at 'Vrockenhorst'. ff. 16-19

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Lieut Colonel Robert Boyd and Colonel Peirson. (Described at item level)

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