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HOWE AND THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Secret rendezvous signed by Earl Howe, to his second in command Admiral Thomas Graves in the Royal Sovereign, prior to the Glorious First of June, 9 September 1779

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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HOWE AND THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

Secret rendezvous signed by Earl Howe, to his second in command Admiral Thomas Graves in the Royal Sovereign, prior to the Glorious First of June, with address panel marked "Not to be opened but [in] case of Separation", Spithead, 25 March 1794; together with a letter signed by Samuel Barrington, written from the Prince of Wales while stationed at Barbados during the War of American Independence and awaiting Hotham's fleet to join him from New York, complaining to the navy commissioners of the poor quality of "Buntin and Hammocks" supplied ("...the former is so very bad that the Colours are seldom twice hoisted without being mended, and the latter are made of such wretched stuff that they are worn out in five or six scrubbings..."), 1778; and a printed circular signed on behalf of Louis XVI, ordering that a Te Deum be held at Évreux Cathedral to celebrate d'Estaing's taking of Grenada from the English, small loss to address panel of Howe, guards, dust staining and other wear, 9 September 1779

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