Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
QUEEN ANNE'S WAR COMMISSION (CANADA--PORT ROYAL.) Partly-printed Document Signed by Thomas Erle and others, commissioning Phillip Brooks a Mattross "to the artillery Imployed in the Expedition against Canada Commanded by Coll: John Redknap." 1 page, folded folio sheet with integral blank; mat burn, usual folds, seal intact. [London], 19 May 1709

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Redknap commanded the Royal Artillery in the successful siege and assault of the French occupied Port Royal, which was renamed Annapolis Royal after being seized by the British in 1710.