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The marines and convicts having been previously embarked in the River, at Portsmouth, and Plymouth, the whole fleet destined for the expedition rendezvoused at the Mother Bank, on the 16th of March 1787, and remained there until the 13th of May following. In this period, excepting a slight appearance of contagion in one of the transports, the ships were universally healthy, and the prisoners in high spirits. ... Read more

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This book is a vivid and astute first-hand account of the French Revolution as experienced by Major Watkin Tench, held on parole in the town of Quimper in Brittany in 1795-95. Tench's account illustrates and analyses the volatile relationship between languages (English, French, Breton) and social-political codes (republican and monarchist, genteel and plebian, Catholic and anticlerical). ... Read more