Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt volume 2
Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt volume 2
Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
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Pitt determined to risk the displeasure rather than neglect 262 LIFE OF PITT. Chap. XVIII. the service of his Master. He addressed a letter to the King, no copy of which is preserved among his papers, but the drift of which may be discovered from the King's reply.^ The object was to ui-ge upon His Majesty the recall of his son from the command. The King received this communication with pain, nay even anguish of mind, but did not oppose it. Early in December accordingly His Koyal Highness came b...ack to England, leaving the English and Hanoverian troops under the command of the Hanoverian General Wal- moden. In the West Indies the war continued to be waged. An English armament had been sent to this quarter, the ships under Admiral Sir John Jervis, and the troops under General Sir Charles Grey. By then- joint exertions Martinico, St. Lucia, and Guadeloupe were successively reduced. But some regiments being then detached for a descent upon St. Domingo, an opening was left to a squadi-on which had been despatched from France with about fifteen hundred soldiers on board.
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