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MS. I. 15. 211 . V SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. The Frontispiece to this volume represents the principal Officers of the Garrison of Gibraltar assembled on the ramparts, to view the dreadful scene which ensued from the Spanish battering-ships being set on fire. General Elliot on horseback in conversation with Gene- rals Boyd, De La Motte, and Green, points to Sir Roger Curtis, and a detachment of British seamen, who, at thehazard of their ownlives, are rescuing their vanquished enemies from destruction. At a distance, on the left, is a view of the camp of the Allied Army, and the head quarters of the Duke de Crillon ; on the right is seen the Rock of Gib- raltar.—See page 306. PITBI.ISHK» BY THOMAS ^TEI..SOJr. Lizars A HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. WITH A DESCRIPTION AND ACCOUNT OF THAT GARRISON, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS. BY JOHN DRINKWATER, CAPTAIN IN THE SEVENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, OR ROYAL MANCHESTER VOLUNTEERS, AND MEMBER OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER. • volatile ferrum Spargitur, arva nova Neptunia csede rubescunt.—Virg. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS NELSON. MDCCCXXXIX. V? C‘S V V/ B -9 ^ AU 7 <? 197V’' v>tw O'* J. THOMSON, POINTER, MILNE SQUARE. TO THE KING. SIR, When I solicited the honour of being permit- ted to place under Your Majesty’s protection the following Work, I was not impressed with the idea, that the excellence of the composition, but that the importance of the subject, might in some degree entitle it to that distinction. The History of an Event which reflects so much lustre on Your Majesty’s Arms, could not, I apprehended, however feeble the execution, so properly appear under any other auspices.
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