"The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1780" — First edition

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Full title: The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1780. Published in London for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall in 1781. First edition. 655pp.

Through the end of the 18th-century, “The Annual Register” became the most respected journal in print. The periodical was a reference work that contained major events from each year, focusing on economics, politics, arts, trends, and world developments. Many leading historians of the American Revolutionary period, including David Ramsay, James Murray, and William Gordon, “borrowed heavily from the Annual Register” (Gephart 1016, 2565). 

This 1780 register provides detailed coverage of the events that year, including . . .

• The Revolutionary War
• Notes on the Siege of Charleston
• Battle of Camden
• Commands of General Cornwallis
• General Tarleton victories
• Political and military bills proposed by Edmund Burke
• Naval expeditions in Jamaica and the Bay of Honduras
• Correspondence between King of France and British parliament
• East India Company bounties and ships

Size: 8.25" x 5.25"

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