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BEP(F.759.005
19 Feb 1759:12 (1225)
Nov. 4. The Bishop of Valance in Dauphiny, in his mandate
for singing Te Deum there on account of General Abercromby's
miscarriage in America, and the late repulse our troops met
with on the coast of Brittany, has honoured his Majesty's
foot soldiers with the epithet of Preterian-Cohort; which
they indeed justly merited on that unfortunate occasion,
when they gave signal proofs of their innate bravery, as
ever the Romans did in the most virtuous aera of the
republic; but the good Bishop takes no notice of the great
disparity of numbers at St. Cass's bay, though he does not
fail to remark it in the attack of Ticonderoga; where, in
fact, there was no disproportion, considering how strongly
his countrymen were entrenched, and that our forces attacked
them without cannon. . . [7 more lines.]
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