Memoirs of the Count de Forbin, commodore in the navy of France: And Knight of the Order of St. Lewis. Containing his narrative of the voyages he made to the East-Indies, &c. and of the great Honours paid to him at the Court of Siam, where he was preferr'd to be the King's High-Admiral, Generalissimo of his Troops, and Governor of the Tower of Bancock. His particular Account of the Battle at La Hogue, and other Fights that he was engag'd in, during Forty-Four Years that he spent in the Sea Service. And his Secret History Of the Chevalier de St. George's Expedition in 1708, from Dunkirk to Scotland; in which he had the special Charge of the Chevalier's Person. Translated from the French. The third edition. In two volumes. ..
- Claude de Forbin Gardane
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- 1740
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Memoirs of the Count de Forbin, commodore in the navy of France: And Knight of the Order of St. Lewis. Containing his narrative of the voyages he made to the East-Indies, &c. and of the great Honours paid to him at the Court of Siam, where he was preferr'
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London : printed for F. Noble, at Otway's-Head, in St. Martin's-Court, near Leicester-Fields, 1740.
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