1758 London newspaper w FRENCH & INDIAN WAR NAVAL BATTLE Long eyewitness report

Description: 1758 London newspaper w FRENCH & INDIAN WAR NAVAL BATTLE Long eyewitness report 1758 London newspaper with a long eyewitness report of a FRENCH & INDIAN WAR NAVAL BATTLE - inv # 4C-405 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the London Gazette (ENGLAND) dated Jan 10, 1758. This newspaper has a front page RED TAX STAMP, similar to the ones that were objected to by the American Colonies during the STAMP ACT PROTESTS. These tax stamps, as is present on this newspaper, were a factor in bringing on the American Revolutionary War !!This issue contains an eyewitness account (beginning on the front page and running for a full column) of a naval battle during the FRENCH and INDIAN WAR during which the British warship HMS America defeated several French warships in naval battles of the French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years War in the European theater of war).VERY LONG and DETAILED eyewitness ACCOUNT of a naval battle between Great Britain and France during the FRENCH and INDIAN WAR The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper title and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as The Oxford Gazette. HMS America was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built for service during the Seven Years' War against France and Spain. Commissioned in 1757, America was assigned to the British fleets blockading French ports in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and played an active role in the Battle of Lagos in 1759. After a refit in 1760, she was sailed to the East Indies for combat against Spanish forces in the Philippines. America was returned to England at the end of the war, and was broken up in 1771.America was stationed off the southwestern coast of England throughout the winter of 1757–1758, on patrol for French privateers. On 9 December she recaptured John Galley, an English Merchantman from the port of Bolton which had been seized by French. With the assistance of a prize crew from America, the recaptured vessel was sailed to Plymouth for return to her original owners. America remained at her station, and on 18 December captured a French merchantman, Neptune, bearing a load of fish. The French crew were held aboard as prisoners, and the vessel sent into Plymouth as a prize."We came up with a French Snow who, in firing her stern chase at Brilliant, which was very near her, by some accident took fire in her power room and blew up all the after part of her. She burnt with great violence for half an hour, and then sunk."An engagement on the following day proved less successful for America's crew. In the morning of 19 December the ship was in company with HMS Brilliant when they came within range of Diamond a 14-gun French snow carrying a cargo of Quebecois furs. The French vessel turned to flee, firing her stern chasers at Brilliant as she went. Shortly afterward the cannon fire ignited the snow's powder magazine and she exploded and sank. Only 24 of her 70 crew escaped the wreck to be rescued by the British vessels, and most of these subsequently died of their burns. Four days later, America ran across another French privateer, the 24-gun Dragon, and defeated her after a 90-minute battle.This newspaper has 4 pages (2 leafs) with a page size of 12.5" x 9". The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies carry a tax stamp. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America following the British victory in the Seven Years' War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense. The Stamp Act met with great resistance in the colonies. It was seen as a violation of the right of Englishmen to be taxed only with their consent—consent which could only be granted through their colonial legislatures. Colonial assemblies sent petitions of protests, and the Stamp Act Congress, reflecting the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure, also petitioned Parliament and the king. Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia. Protests and demonstrations initiated by to Sons of Liberty often turned violent and destructive as the masses became involved. Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected. Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on 18 March 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" by also passing the Declaratory Act. This incident increased the colonists' concerns about the intent of the British Parliament and added fuel to the growing movement that became the American Revolution. The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the UK, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as the Oxford Gazette. The London Gazette was first published as the Oxford Gazette on 7 November 1665. Charles II and the Royal Court had moved to Oxford to escape the Great Plague of London, and courtiers were unwilling to touch, let alone read, London newspapers for fear of contagion. The Gazette was "Published by Authority" by Henry Muddiman, and its first publication is noted by Samuel Pepys in his diary. The King returned to London as the plague dissipated, and the Gazette moved too, with the first issue of the London Gazette (labelled No. 24) being published on 5 February 1666.Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. 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