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Physical description: Ms. orders, 1 p. 32 cm.
Item note: "You are hereby required and directed to put yourself under my Command..." signed "Saml Hood" "To Captain Graves Commander of His Maj's. Ship the Bedford."Captain Thomas Graves (1747?-1814) commanded the Bedford as Affleck's flag captain "in the engagement at St. Kitts on 26 Jan. 1782, and in the actions to leeward of Dominica on 9 and 12 April, in which last the Bedford had a very distinguished part" (DNB).On Hood see DNB 27:263.
Original digital object name: bei-m277
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