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An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794: With the Reduction of the Islands of Martinique, st Lucia, Guadaloupe, Marigalante,. Etc. (Cambridge Library Collection - History)
Cooper Willyams
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Cambridge University Press
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An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794: With the Reduction of the Islands of Martinique, st Lucia, Guadaloupe, Marigalante,. Etc. (Cambridge Library Collection - History) - Willyams, Cooper
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Synopsis "An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794: With the Reduction of the Islands of Martinique, st Lucia, Guadaloupe, Marigalante,. Etc. (Cambridge Library Collection - History)"
The naval chaplain Cooper Willyams (1762-1816), who was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and took holy orders in 1784, published this account of the West Indies campaign in 1796. The son of a navy commander, Willyams was also a self-taught artist and topographer, and in 1802 published his eyewitness account of the battle of the Nile, also reissued in this series. The campaign against the French in the Caribbean was notable for the large numbers of combatants on both sides who succumbed to yellow fever. Using his own notes and the accounts of other eyewitnesses, Willyams describes the arrival of the fleet, commanded by Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis (later Earl St Vincent, for whom Willyams acted as chaplain), in Barbados; the actions undertaken against the French to secure the islands of Martinique, St Lucia, and Guadeloupe; and the subsequent recapture of the latter by the French.