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** THE 7 YEARS WAR - FONTENILLE CORRESPONDENCE - COVER EX P.O.W. ON PAROLE IN TAVISTOCK; 22 July 1762 EL (full typed transcript; slight staining) from "Fontenille" while a POW on Parole in "Tavistock" to his uncle in Floransac charged "10". The writer says; "Vessels from China have just arrived in which five officers of the regiment named the Chevalier de Viare, Dupuy, Brucamps, Brousse and St Aubin; the rest will arrive soon - there are only those who have been in Bombay that we have no news of, except if you please of the Chevalier de Tondus... Every time that I have had your dear news since the departure of the Paquebot which transports the Governor of India and his advisers from France, I have received three letters from my dear father; my joy is inconceivable....". Rare 7 Years War letter from a POW captured in India. [See MFPWE, p. 52.] Cross Reference: MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, FRANCE, DEVON, INDIA
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