An Authentic Account of our Last Attempt Upon the Coast of France ..

3rd edition. (3), [4]-46pp. 4-3/4 x 7-7/8 inches. Disbound, no half-title page. 1/2 inch top border tear on p.43, otherwise very good condition. With 2 appendices. Appendix 1, p.29 lists casualties to the 38th Foot.

ESTC T150713

Full title: An Authentic Account of our Last Attempt Upon the Coast of France. By an officer, who miraculously escaped being cut to pieces, by swimming to a boat at a considerable distance from the shore. In a letter to a friend.

The Battle of Saint Cast was a military engagement during the Seven Years' War on the French coast between British naval and land expeditionary forces and French coastal defence forces. Fought on 11 September 1758, it was won by the French. While the British continued such expeditions against French colonies and islands beyond the reach of the French land forces, this was the last attempt by an amphibious expedition in force against the coast of France during the Seven Years' War.

The Seven Years War was a global conflict which ran from 1754 until 1763 and pitted a coalition of Great Britain and its allies against a coalition of France and its allies. The war escalated from a regional conflict between Great Britain and France in North America, known today as the French and Indian War.