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Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Title Memoirs of a cavalier, or, A military journal of the wars in Germany, and the wars in England : from the year 1632, to the year 1648 / written threescore years ago by an English gentleman, who served first in the army of Gustavus Adolphus, the glorious king of Sweden, till his death; and after that, in the royal army of King Charles the First, from the beginning of the rebellion, to the end of that war.

Imprint

London : Printed for A. Bell, J. Osborn, W. Taylor, and T. Warner, [1720?]

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets	LEL 11587	---	Available

Description	[8], 338 p.
Series	Library of English literature ; LEL 11587
Note	Page 228 misnumbered 238.
	Preface states the "memoirs" were found "in the closet of an eminent publick minister, of no less figure than one of King William's secretaries of state."
	First published London, 1720? Published later under titles: A military history of Germany, and of England (Edinburgh, 1766) The history of the civil wars in Germany (Newark, 1782) Memoirs of the Honourable Col. Andrew Newport (London, 1792)
	Publisher of the 2nd ed. attributes authorship to Andrew Newport, but accounts of his life have been found incompatible with the Memoirs. cf. Dictionary of national biography.
Reproduction	Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 11587)
Note	s 1976 ilu n
Subject	Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction
	Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Fiction.