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Gordon Gallie MacDonald memoir
- Title
- Gordon Gallie MacDonald memoir, 1745-1831.
- Author
- MacDonald, Gordon Gallie.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 1825 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .21 linear foot (1 volume)
- Summary
- Gordon Gallie MacDonald, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, wrote this memoir about the years 1745-1831. The memoir includes information about his ancestry; an account of the battle at Culloden; his father's service with General John Burgoyne at the Battles of Saratoga; his own service in the British navy; the War of 1812; attacks on Baltimore, New Orleans, and other cities; pirates in the West Indies; the slave trade; and a cruise to South America, Africa, and Mauritius. The memoir also includes an account of Ossian poems, a letter on corporal punishment in the Navy, and comments on navy ordnance.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Memoirs.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Microfilm must be used in lieu of original volume.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available on microfilm;
- Call Number
- MssCol 1825
- OCLC
- 746173905
- Author
- MacDonald, Gordon Gallie.
- Title
- Gordon Gallie MacDonald memoir, 1745-1831.
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.Microfilm must be used in lieu of original volume.
- Additional Formats
- Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-220.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 1825