A HISTORY OF THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR, 1779-1783. WITH A DESCRIPTION AND ACCOUNT OF THAT GARRISON, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS. BY JOHN DRINKWATER, Captain in the late Seventy-second Regiment, or Royal Manchester Volunteers. "Volatile ferrum Spargitur, arva nova Neptunia cæde rubescunt." VIRG. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1844. ΤΟ THE KING. SIR, WHEN I solicited the honour of being permitted to place under Your Majesty's protection the following Work, I was not impressed with the idea, that the excellence of the composition, but that the importance of the subject, might in some degree entitle it to that distinction. The History of an Event which reflects so much lustre on Your Majesty's Arms, could not, I apprehended, however feeble the execution, so properly appear under any other auspices. That Your Majesty may never be less faithfully served, nor less successful against the enemies of Your Crown and People, is the sincere and fervent wish of YOUR MAJESTY'S Much obliged and most devoted Subject and Servant, JOHN DRINKWATER. 13th September, 1785. |