Camp Post Offices, Internal and External Campaigns
cover 1783 (25 June) an interesting entire letter from Bombay to London written by a wine merchant after the battle of "Mangalore" in which he makes mention of the War and other events of the time, rated "9" and showing a good strike of the two line "PLYMOUTH/SHIP LRE" h.s. A scarce letter connected to the Second Mysore War
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cover 1783 (25 June) an interesting entire letter from Bombay to London written by a wine merchant after the battle of "Mangalore" in which he makes mention of the War and other events of the time, rated "9" and showing a good strike of the two line "PLYMOUTH/SHIP LRE" h.s. A scarce letter connected to the Second Mysore War
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Extract from letter: "In December last we were bound down the coast, but did not know till a day or two before our departure that we were to be kept sometime on an expedition with the Army..."