Memorandum on the defence of the Cape prepared by Craig for his successor, Lord Macartney
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Part of Papers of Sir James Henry Craig
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Memorandum on the defence of the Cape prepared by Craig for his successor, Lord Macartney
Part of Papers of Sir James Henry Craig
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Papers of Sir James Henry Craig
The collection contains a letterbook, 30 September 1796 - 22 May 1797, entitled 'Homeward letters', containing copies of 25 letters (128 pages) from Craig to Colonel R. Brooke (Governor of St. Helena), J. Duncan (Governor of Bombay), Rt. Hon. H. Dundas (Secretary of State for War) and the Governor and Supreme Council, Bombay. Subjects are the shortage of money, corn and gunpoweder at the Cape, the transport of troops between India and the Cape, the use of slaves and raising of the Hottentot Corps and the state of the Napoleonic War.
Craig, Sir James Henry