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The Expedition Against Rochefort Fully Stated And Considered: In A Letter To The Right Honourable The Author Of The Candid Reflexions On The Report Of The General Officers, &C. By A Country Gentleman by Thomas Potter. This pamphlet is a polemical defense of the Rochefort expedition in the Seven Years’ War, written as a letter that challenges the criticisms levelled at the plan and execution. It argues that the plan could have succeeded and that the failures were due to misapprehensions, misrepresentations, and political interference rather than the merit of the strategy itself. The author scrutinizes the conduct and conclusions of the Board of General Officers and the Council of War, contending that evidence was suppressed, that intelligence from home was misinterpreted, and that the decision to retreat or refrain from landings was a misjudgment. Throughout, the text defends the leadership of the expedition, questions the authority and impartiality of the critics, and laments the erosion of national military reputation and capability. The work also engages with debates over retreat, retreat’s propriety, and the influence of ministers and Admiralty on military decisions.
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The Expedition Against Rochefort Fully Stated and Considered: in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Author of the Candid Reflexions on the Report of the General Officers, &C. by a Country Gentleman: Volume 10
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