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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/86
TitleLetter from Sir Thomas Clarges to unidentified recipient [Mr Secretary Blathwiate]
Extent1 item
Date1694
DescriptionRefers to the bombardment of Dieppe [and Le Havre], 'the first laid in ashes and the later much shattered and half ruined'; Admiral Russell has been joined by Rear Admiral Neville and the fleet consisted of 63 ships of line with Spanish ships expected; in pursuit of the French fleet; asks how the regiment of Lieutenant General Talmash [Tollemache] was disposed
24 July 1694

[Listed in 1840 catalogue of autograph letters, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aRNcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=russell+neville+1694+fleet&source=bl&ots=ogboJTJdvX&sig=amGAMOG4o2_bWRNRM8ojRYg-vvU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQxsWDwtzOAhXqIMAKHftwCnMQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=russell%20neville%201694%20fleet&f=false accessed August 2016]
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