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ANNUAL REGISTER,

OR A VIEW OF THE

HISTORY,

POLITICS,

AND

LITERATURE,

For the YEAR 1781.

LONDON:

Printed for J. DoDSLEY, in Pall-mall, 1782.

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THE

year

of which we treat was fo abundant

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in military event, that if all other memorials of the fame nature were loft, it might afford no very imperfect tranfcript of the art of modern war in all its forms, whether by fea or by land. Though we are not astonished by the appearance of such immenfe armies as have fo often defolated the old world, nor by thofe actions which have in a day decided the fate of nations and empires, we fee as vaft, though less concentrated, operations of war, conducted upon its most scientific principles. When taken in a general view, the combination of its detached parts forms a great whole, whether confidered with respect to action of confequence: We see the war rage, nearly at the fame time, in the countries on both fides of the North River,, on the Chesapeak, in South Carolina, the Floridas, North Carolina, Virginia, the West Indies, the American and West Indian feas. Through this arrangement, in part fortuitous and in part the effect of defign, we are prefented with a number of the beft-conducted and fevereft actions recorded in hiftory. We behold, in an unhappy contention between Englishmen, the greatest exertions of military fkill, a valour which can never be exceeded, and all the

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