The memoirs of Cap. George Carleton, an English officer, who served in the two last wars against France and Spain, and was present in several engagements both in the fleet and army. Containing an account of the conduct of the Earl of Peterborough ... In which the genius, pride, and barbarity of the Spaniards, during the author's being a prisoner of war among them, are set in a true light ...

The memoirs of Cap. George Carleton, an English officer, who served in the two last wars against France and Spain, and was present in several engagements both in the fleet and army. Containing an account of the conduct of the Earl of Peterborough ... In which the genius, pride, and barbarity of the Spaniards, during the author's being a prisoner of war among them, are set in a true light ...

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Author / Creator:Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Imprint:London: Printed for T. Astley, 1743.
Description:[8], 352 p. 20 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Carleton, George, -- active 1728.
Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, -- Earl of, -- 1658-1735.
Great Britain. -- Army.
Armed Forces -- Military life.
Travel.
Great Britain.
Spain.
Military history.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3750255
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Other authors / contributors:Carleton, George, active 1728.
Notes:Caption title: Memoirs of an English officer.
Attributed to Defoe by Moore and Novak.
Published in 1728 with title: The memoirs of an English officer, who serv'd in the Dutch war in 1672 to the peace of Utrecht in 1713. Reisuued as The Military memoirs of Capt. George Carleton, from the dutch war, 1672 ... to the conclusion of the Peace at Utrecht, 1713 (1728) and A true and genuine history ... of the two last wars against France and Spain (1740).
Issue in which the dedication caption reads: To the Right honourable Spencer Lord Compton Baron of Wilmington, and in which the leaf "To the reader" has no postscript. In cop.1 the dedication precedes the leaf "To the reader." In cop.2 the reverse is true.
Cop.1 includes bookseller's list of publications.
An issue of Moore 500.

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