A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Baron George Anson Anson
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Baron George Anson Anson
A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066234102
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ANSON'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
A
VOYAGE
ROUND THE
WORLD
In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV.
BY
GEORGE ANSON, ESQ;
Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's
Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas.
COMPILED
From Papers and other Materials of the Right Honourable
GEORGE Lord ANSON, and published under his Direction,
By RICHARD WALTER, M.A.
Chaplain of his MAJESTY'S Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition.
TO
HIS GRACE, JOHN
DUKE OF BEDFORD, MARQUIS OF TAVISTOCK, EARL OF BEDFORD, BARON RUSSEL, BARON RUSSEL OF THORNHAUGH, AND BARON ROWLAND OF STREATHAM;
One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Bedford.
MY LORD,
The following narrative of a very singular naval atchievement is addressed to your Grace, both on account of the infinite obligations which the commander-in-chief at all times professes to have received from your friendship, and also as the subject itself naturally claims the patronage of one under whose direction the British navy has resumed its ancient spirit and lustre, and has in one summer ennobled itself by two victories, the most decisive, and (if the strength and number of the captures be considered) the most important, that are to be met with in our annals. Indeed, an uninterrupted series of success, and