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A memorial, containing a summary view of facts, with their authorities, in answer to the Observations sent by the English ministry to the courts of Europe
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- translated from the French
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- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
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- English
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- Philadelphia : Printed, by James Chattin, 1757
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- iv, 338 p. ; 20 cm
- The French original (Mémoire contenant le précis des falts [etc.]) was published at Paris by the French government in 1756 as a justification of the war with England. In it were included documents captured from the British at Fort Necessity and at Braddock's defeat.
- "The journal of Major Washington [March 31-June 27, 1754]": p. 124-173.
- "A letter written by Colonel Napier, and sent to General Braddock, by order of the Duke of Cumberland [dated London, Nov. 25, 1754]": p. 202-209. It was this letter which called forth the ironical defence of the Duke of Cumberland, published at London in 1756 under the title: Reasons humbly offered, to prove, that the letter printed at the end of the French Memorial of justificatio, is a French forgery and falsely ascribed to His. R--l H--ss.
- Sabin Group 68.
- Sabin no. 47512.