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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 582

Gibraltar
Early Letters and Handstamps
1704 (27 July) entire letter from Admiral Bryng's brother-in-law, Streynsham Master, to his uncle in London and giving a first hand and vivid account of the assault on Gibraltar and its subsequent capture by British forces, three days before, rated "7" and with "se/25" Bishop mark on reverse; the contents include "we drew in to a line of battle & about five in ye morn, we began to bomb & cannonade ye town....Ye Spaniards sprung a mine & blew up ye Castle, ye stones of which as big as mountains fell upon some of our men...crushed some to death...What befell me was one knock on my pate wch made me bend and a great bruise wch confines me to my bed...Abt this time the town capitulated & they are all marching out", etc. A highly important and graphic campaign letter from the commencement of British Occupation . Photo

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