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Folio 306: W. Pitt to E. Hay. Boscawen's great victory at Lagos may have involved...

SP 89/51/117 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Edward Hay, Sir Henry Frankland, John Whitehead and Mathew Hiccox. | Folio 306: W. Pitt to E. Hay. Boscawen's great victory at Lagos may have involved a breach of Portuguese neutrality in the heat of action. If this proves to be so, Hay must palliate it as best he can, with various excuses here suggested. In no circumstances will H.M. government consent to any reprimand of Boscawen or restore any of the captured French ships; but otherwise King George II will give all `reasonable satisfaction' to King Joseph, including, perha…

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Source	UK National Archives
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	The National Archives, Kew
Date	1759 Sept
Type	catalogue level 7, closure O
Details	search Lagos
Found at	https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6846001
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Record ID	`uk-tna-discovery:C6846001`

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Folio 306: W. Pitt to E. Hay. Boscawen's great victory at Lagos may have involved.... UK National Archives, 1759. Vero Archive, record uk-tna-discovery:C6846001.