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** THE 7 YEARS WAR - FONTENILLE CORRESPONDENCE - EX P.O.W. ON PAROLE IN TAVISTOCK REF. IMMINENT RELEASE; 29 Aug. 1762 EL (full typed transcript; small ink mark just affects address) from "Fontenille" while a POW on Parole in "Tavistock" to his uncle in Floransac charged "10" (the rate from Paris only as it was sent by official means via London). The writer says; "Finally, the Commissioner has received orders to arm a ship to transport the Indian soldiers back to France. Having communicated this it to us, we are due to leave for Plymouth, and from there, to reach our homeland... I had lost all hope of ever seeing France again, finding me six thousand leagues away, abandoned to a miserable life full of infamy, having before my eyes the most terrible images of an imminent death... The mistreatment that we suffered has severely changed the taste that I have always had for my profession ". Rare letter from a POW captured in India during the 7 Years War who was about to be released. [See MFPWE, p. 53.]Cross Reference: DEVON, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, FRANCE, INDIA
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