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Jones, E. H. Stuart.
An Invasion That Failed.
Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1950
Stock Code: 11429
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xv, [1], 256. 16 illustrations to plates including frontispiece of Lazare Hoche from the crayon portrait by Ursle Boze in the Musee de Lambinet at Versailles; fold-out map to rear. Publishers’ grass green cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Contents clean and crisp, with no annotation or inscriptions. A few nicks & creases to dust-jacket, with some loss at head of spine. Scarce history of the little known French expedition to Ireland in December 1796, in which the British Navy failed to prevent the French fleet from reaching Bantry Bay in Cork. Nonetheless, the French did not manage to land men or weapons. Based on French archives and original documents in the Public Record Office, as well as previously unpublished sources. £40.00