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Description: | Diary relates to military actions in Germany, uncertainty of how peace terms will be decided once the fighting is over, and to the Duke of Cumberland's stroke
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8 August comments on receiving news that the right wing of the French army was defeated by the allies
10 August notes that the French Ambassador highly commends General Eliot's newly raised Regiment of Light Horse during the late action
10 August comments: 'I hear the King has been very peevish lately upon being solicited to create, and promote more Irish Peers'
21 August comments: 'Victories, at the price we pay for them, if not followed by Peace, will undo this Country. There is no going on at the rate of raising sixteen millions sterling a year'
26 August comments on his happiness following the success of his nephew Captain Byron at Chaleur Bay in the Gulf of St Lawrence
11 September laments the loss of his friend Captain Robert Grylls: 'his inoffensive behaviour rendered him acceptable to everybody, that knew him.... by the gentleness of his temper, & manners, was ever most welcome.... So true it is, that an easy companion is preferable to a shining one'
17 September remarks on the opinions of the Prince Hereditary in relation to war and military victory | Subjects: | Country Estates Church Of England Parishes Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | 1 Aug 1760-24 Sep 1760 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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