FRENCH & INDIAN WAR – GEORGE II, King of England (1683-1760). His Majesty’s Declaration of War against the French King … Given at Our Court at Kensington, the Seventeenth Day of May, 1756 . London: printed by Thomas Baskett, 1756.
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR – GEORGE II, King of England (1683-1760). His Majesty’s Declaration of War against the French King … Given at Our Court at Kensington, the Seventeenth Day of May, 1756 . London: printed by Thomas Baskett, 1756. The First and official printing of George II’s Declaration of War, beginning the French and Indian War (or Seven Years’ War). King George’s declaration details a string of “unwarrantable Proceedings” by the French, but the last straw was the lack of repentance when, “in a time of profound Peace, without any Declaration of War, and without any previous Notice given, or Application made, a Body of French Troops, under the Command of an Officer bearing the French King’s Commission, attacked in a hostile Manner and possessed themselves of the English Fort on the Ohio in North America.” The ensuing French and Indian Wars would ultimately determine the power structure of the North American colonies. Rare; there is only one copy in the auction records of RBH. Broadside (520 x 412mm). Wood-engraved headpiece and initial. (Mild creasing and edge-tears, tiny hole at center, lower quadrant lightly toned.)
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR – GEORGE II, King of England (1683-1760). His Majesty’s Declaration of War against the French King … Given at Our Court at Kensington, the Seventeenth Day of May, 1756 . London: printed by Thomas Baskett, 1756.
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR – GEORGE II, King of England (1683-1760). His Majesty’s Declaration of War against the French King … Given at Our Court at Kensington, the Seventeenth Day of May, 1756 . London: printed by Thomas Baskett, 1756. The First and official printing of George II’s Declaration of War, beginning the French and Indian War (or Seven Years’ War). King George’s declaration details a string of “unwarrantable Proceedings” by the French, but the last straw was the lack of repentance when, “in a time of profound Peace, without any Declaration of War, and without any previous Notice given, or Application made, a Body of French Troops, under the Command of an Officer bearing the French King’s Commission, attacked in a hostile Manner and possessed themselves of the English Fort on the Ohio in North America.” The ensuing French and Indian Wars would ultimately determine the power structure of the North American colonies. Rare; there is only one copy in the auction records of RBH. Broadside (520 x 412mm). Wood-engraved headpiece and initial. (Mild creasing and edge-tears, tiny hole at center, lower quadrant lightly toned.)
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