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[MOREAU, Jacob Nicolas] [1717-1803]Biblio.com

Mémoire Contenant Le Précis Des Faits Avec Leurs Pièces Justificatives Pour servir de Réponse aux Observations envoyées par les Ministres d'Angleterre dans les Cours de l'Europe

1756réf. elala1110Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale 1756. 1756. 12mo. pp. viii 275. full modern mottled calf a few scattered stains. First Duodecimo Edition. Published the same year as the first edition in quarto. This is the French reply to an English memorial addressed to the courts of Europe stating their position on the war on the Ohio justifying their actions and setting forth their claims to the region west of the Alleghenies. Accusing the English of unprovoked aggression and foul play the French sought to demonstrate that it was Washington's 'assassination' of Jumonville in the Fort Necessity campaign among other offensive actions which had sparked the war. Most of the text is composed of 'pièces justificatives' comprising documents and letters written between 1749 and 1755 by La Jonquière Governor of New France Albemarle Rouillé General Braddock Contrecoeur Villiers Sir William Johnson George Washington and Robert Stobo an engineer with Washington who had planned Fort Necessity. Among the more important papers are translations of the instructions given to Braddock by the British Crown letters to and from Braddock and Sir William Johnson and various officials two of Johnson's 'harangues' to the Indians and the first printing although in French translation of extracts from the journal kept by George Washington in the 1754 expedition to fortify the forks of the Ohio that ended with the British surrender to the French at Fort Necessity in July 1754 pp. 109-146. This is quite distinct from Washington's first journal of his mission for Governor Dinwiddie late in 1753 printed at Williamsburg in 1754. Most of these British papers were seized by the French following the capitulation at Fort Necessity. An early work on the French and Indian War described by Lawrence Wroth in his John Carter Brown Library report for 1945-46' as "one of the most important documents in American colonial history." Dionne II 548. JCB I 1123. Lande 657. Sabin 47511. TPL 250. Vlach 549. cfHowes M-787 different pag. cfGagnon II 1369 & cfStreeter II 1013 first in 4to. Wroth American Bookshelf p. 22. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1756. Paperback

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