Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. .21 linear foot (1 volume)

Summary

1. Gordon Gallie MacDonald, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, wrote this memoir about the years 1745-1831. The memoir includes information about his ancestry; an account of the battle at Culloden; his father's service with General John Burgoyne at the Battles of Saratoga; his own service in the British navy; the War of 1812; attacks on Baltimore, New Orleans, and other cities; pirates in the West Indies; the slave trade; and a cruise to South America, Africa, and Mauritius. The memoir also includes an account of Ossian poems, a letter on corporal punishment in the Navy, and comments on navy ordnance.

Subject

1. MacDonald, Gordon Gallie > Memoirs
2. Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777
3. Memoirs
4. Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746
5. Great Britain > Royal Navy > Officers > Diaries
6. Saratoga Campaign, N.Y., 1777

Genre/Form

1. Memoirs.

Call number

1. MssCol 1825

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
2. Microfilm must be used in lieu of original volume.

Additional formats (note)

1. Available on microfilm;

Author

1. MacDonald, Gordon Gallie.

Title

1. Gordon Gallie MacDonald memoir, 1745-1831.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
2. Microfilm must be used in lieu of original volume.

Additional formats

1. Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-220.

Research call number

1. MssCol 1825