Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, off Toulon, 28 August [1796],Captain Towry fitting out a flotilla at Ajaccio to counter the expected attack on west Corsica, to watch for Spanish ships and valuable cargoes, provisions from Leghorn, correspondence from Madame Caffarena [English wife of a merchant at Genoa]
Admiral Sir John JERVIS, later Lord St Vincent, 1735-1823, Jervis to Nelson, HMS VICTORY, off Toulon, 28 August [1796],Captain Towry fitting out a flotilla at Ajaccio to counter the expected attack on west Corsica, to watch for Spanish ships and valuable cargoes, provisions from Leghorn, correspondence from Madame Caffarena [English wife of a merchant at Genoa]
Record Details
| Item reference: | CRK/11/73 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Artificial collections previously assembled |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 1 item |
| Date made: | 1796-08-28 |
| Creator: | Phillipps-Croker |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |