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KINSALE. A full and particular relation of the taking the town and forts of Kinsale, and how they we

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KINSALE. A full and particular relation of the taking the town and forts of Kinsale, and how they we

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
KINSALE. A full and particular relation of the taking the town and forts of Kinsale, and how they were besieged both by sea and land. Lecensed [sic], October 10. 1690. J. F. London, Printed for Langley Curtiss near Fleet-bridge. [1690]BROADSIDE, printed on one side only : in very good to nice state. Wing F 2287, the only edition, locating three copies : MC / MH. NP. Sweeney 2046 "Important and interesting / extremely rare". A graphic account, evidently by an eye-witness, of how the Earl of Marlborough sent 500 horse and dragoons to reduce Kinsale, from which King James had sailed for France after his defeat at the Boyne some three months earlier. The town was quickly taken. After this engagement Limerick was the only significant town in Munster still in Jacobite hands.WING; IRELAND; HISTORY; CORK; KINSALE; BROADSIDE; ; ; ; ; ;