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An Anniversary Noted For General Work's Noble Life
The piece marks the birth anniversary of the late General Work who died near Québec aged about thirty two. It records his heroic death in action at Abraham’s Bosom, near the walls of Québec, and notes royal appointments, weddings, deaths, and a stroke on public drinking laws debated by a citizen, with remarks on a charitable fund for British troops in Quebec and Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cafar Wascarcely
Allen
Horse Guards
Ord
Great Buffel-street
Guadalupe
Everard
Golden Square
Cole
Chambers-street
Goodman’s Fields
Benedict Hooper
Greenwich
Joseph Bell
Br. Norris John Hainke
Exchange-alley
Cockrane
West Smithfield
Fingle
Brentford
Smallbury-Green
Smallbury-Green, of Theirs Money and the Gentleman’s Watch
Whitechapel
His Majesty's
Lusstia
Neudorff
Albert
Giement
Henge
Warsaw
Leipsick
Prince of
Brunswick
Prince Henry
Dippels Walden
Maxen
Freyberg
Pretschendorff
Marshal Daun
Monach
Chemnitz
Passberg
Frederickstadt
Francfort
Mayn
Duke de Broglio
Gieffen
Ferdinand
Xavierus
Saxony
Hithey
Paris
Imhoff
Lippe
Duffeldorp
Cologn
Europe
London
Huthog
Bread-Street-Hill
Nicholas Neuter
Quebec
Germany