AMERICA - PHILADELPHIA - - Lot 6

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AMERICA - PHILADELPHIA - - Lot 6
AMERICA - PHILADELPHIA - UNITED STATES INDEPENDENCE WAR - MANUSCRIT XVIII° entitled: "RELATION of the COMBAT of the TWO FREGATES THE EAGLE and THE GLORY against the HECTOR of 74 CANONS and of the TAKING of the EAGLE at the entrance of the DELAWARRE in PHILADELPHIA, October 7, 1782". The French ship l'Aigle was forced to run aground, and taken by the Division of Commodore Elphinston, Commander Warwick. The men it was carrying, the goods and a large sum of money, destined for Philadelphia, were seized. Manuscript XVIII°, very dense, with a fine writing, well readable, small in-4 of 8 pages, of which 6 handwritten, (about 185 lines in total).
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