Manila Ransomed : The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
by Tracy, Nicholas
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Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995. 1st edition. As New. octavo. stiff wrappers xiii + 158pp., b/w plates, notes, bibliog., index, n 1762, at the end of the Seven Years War, a small but technically proficient force of British Army regulars and East India Company soldiers, supported by ships & men of the East Indies Squadron of the Royal Navy, sailed from Madras to capture Manila. Commanded by General William Draper & Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish, capturing the greatest Spanish fortress in the W. Pacific & attempted to establish trade with China.
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- Title
- Manila Ransomed : The British Assault on Manila in the Seven Years War
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- Tracy, Nicholas
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Place of Publication
- Exeter
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- octavo
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