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Channel Squadron 1800-6: general orderbook Feb 1801-April 1802. (Manuscript)
1801-02 - 1802-04
COR/46
Channel Squadron 1800-6: orderbook August 1803-November 1805. (Manuscript)
1803-08 - 1805-11
COR/48
Channel Squadron 1800-6: letterbook to the Admiralty August 1805-Feb 1806. (Manuscript)
1805-08 - 1806-02
COR/43
Official correspondence received by Cornwallis 1768-1815: journals recording the action of fleets under the command of Admiral Sir William Cornwallis and M Villaret Joyeuse 16-17 June 1795. (Manuscript)
1795-06-16 - 1801-06-30
COR/10
Official correspondence received by Cornwallis 1768-1815: during the period 1 April 1802-31 July 1815 including two secret memoranda signed by Lord Melville. (Manuscript)
1802-04-01 - 1804-07-31
COR/9
Channel Squadron 1800-6: Admiral's journal with signals August 1805-Feb 1806. (Manuscript)
1805-08 - 1806-02
COR/37
Channel Squadron and West Indies 1794-96: Admiral's signal logbook January-April 1796. (Manuscript)
1796-01 - 1796-04
COR/31
Channel Squadron and West Indies 1794-96: orderbook June 1794-April 1795. (Manuscript)
1794-06 - 1795-04
COR/33
Channel Squadron and West Indies 1794-96: Admiral's signal logbook with signals November 1794-May 1795. (Manuscript)
1794-11 - 1795-05
COR/29
East Indies 1789-94: orderbook Feb 1789-July 1791. (Manuscript)
1789-02 - 1791-07
COR/23
East Indies 1789-94: draft journal June 1793-Feb 1794 with entries by Cornwallis. (Manuscript)
1793-06 - 1794-02
COR/18
East Indies 1789-94: draft journal Dec 1792-June 1793 with entries by Cornwallis. (Manuscript)
1792-12 - 1793-06
COR/17
East Indies 1789-94: duplicate journal November 1788-May 1790. (Manuscript)
1788-11 - 1790-05
COR/16
East Indies 1789-94: logbook of the CROWN, flag ship of Commandore Cornwallis Jul-Dec 1789. (Manuscript)
1789-07 - 1789-12
COR/19
Admiral Cornwallis, Newlands, to Markham, recommending lieut Tho Millar for a frigate (Manuscript)
ca.1802
MRK/101/13/47
Admiral Cornwallis, Ville de Paris, to Markham, recommending for promotion Richard Smith acting lieutenant, and William Adams, gunner, not wishing to trouble Lord St Vincent (Manuscript)
1801
MRK/101/13/46
Admiral Cornwallis, Newlands, to Markham, on replacing the gunner of the Magnificent sent from Torbay to the hospital in Portsmouth, who died (Manuscript)
1802
MRK/101/13/48
Letterbook, February 1789 to January 1791 (Manuscript)
1789-02-11 - 1791-01-06
COR/100/3/2
Five commissions for William Cornwallis. (Manuscript)
1793-02-01 -1805-11-09
COR/100/1/3
Seven commissions in red leather wallet. (Manuscript)
1787-09-24 - 1803-05-06
COR/100/1/2
Account of the Battle of the Saintes by William Cornwallis (Manuscript)
1782-1851
COR/100/6/6
Eighteen commissions in red leather wallet. (Manuscript)
1761-04-06 - 1787-10-03
COR/100/1/1
Letters received by Cornwallis 1789-1805 (Manuscript)
1789-1805
COR/51-53
Signal books: 'Signals and Instructions in addition to the General Printed Sailing and Fighting Instructions' 1779. (Manuscript)
1779
COR/61
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