An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America

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An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America

John Knox, 1769

KNOX, John (d.1778). An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America, for the Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760: Containing the Most Remarkable Occurrences of that Period; Particularly the Two Sieges of Quebec... London: Printed for the Author, 1769.



Handsome and untrimmed copy of the first edition: one of the best original authorities for the death of James Wolfe and the conquest of Canada, “a very valuable collection of materials towards a history of our late war” (Monthly Review). "Knox, an Irishman, served in America from 1757-60 with the 43rd Regiment of Foot. His journal, written mostly at the time, and finished almost ‘as soon as the events it contains' (introd.) is one of the most accurate and detailed accounts available on the sieges of Louisbourg and Quebec" (TPL).



In 1757, Knox arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his regiment to take part in the expedition against Louisbourg, although the attack was postponed and the regiment did not see action in the siege. The regiment participated in the battle of the Plains of Abraham, served under James Murray at Quebec in the winter of 1759-60, and was present at the capitulation of Montreal in 1760. Knox gives a first-hand account of the battles, and supplements his narrative with printings of important official documents and orders from both the British and the French. The portraits represent Generals Amherst and Wolfe, and the map, by Thomas Kitchin, shows the British dominions in North America according to the treaty of 1763. Howes K-220; Sabin 38163; TPL 323; Streeter sale 1030.



Two volumes, quarto (280 x 215mm). Errata leaves at end of each volume. (Last two leaves in volume one with outer margin renewed.) Two engraved frontispiece portraits and large folding map by Thomas Kitchin (map with a light stain and touch of offsetting). 20th-century quarter morocco, spines gilt-lettered. Provenance: R. Bedingfeld (neat inkstamp on both titles, shelf mark, the author’s regiment written in on both titles) – Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld (bookplate in vol. 2).

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