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(MANUSCRIBER) Details of the Six Campaigns of Hanover, the general recapitulation, and the instructive table can be found (sic) at the end of the volume. Book of the Hannover Campaigns beginning with that of 1757 up to and including that of 1762, which belongs to Monsieur de Chavigny, lieutenant in the King's regiment. Manuscript of this diary kept by Charles-Léon de Bouthillier-Chavigny (1743-1818), who took part in the Seven Years War. This manuscript relates the battles of the French armies in Germany, from 1757 to 1762. We find there for 1757, the relation of the Battle of Hastenbeck (July 23), for 1758 when the army was under the orders of the Prince of Clermont then of the Marshal de Contades, the Battle of Crevelle (June), the Battle won by the Prince of Soubise at Lutterberg (October 10); for 1759, the Battle of Bergen with an army led by the Duke de Broglie (April 13), the surrender of Munster proposed by M. de Zastrou to the Marquis d'Armantières (25 July), the Battle of Minden (1 August); for 1760, the Battle of Corbach (10 July); for 1761, the Battle of Villinghausen (15-16 July), and finally for 1762, where the army is under the orders of the Marshals of Soubise and Estrées, the Day of Cassel (25 June). This important manuscript is in-12 format, lined, bound in solid rooted basane, spine ribbed with a label partly missing, and has 306 pages, written in black ink, with a decorated title page, and ends with a handwritten table of contents on two leaves.
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