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John Curtice Diary

出版	1745
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註釋The manuscript is titled, on 2v, "Diarie of the Transactions for the expedition against the French in the yeare 1745--from April the 6th till January 1746 by me. / John Curtice / Captn 8th Co Mass R. / of Worcester New Engld". It is Curtice's first-hand account of the siege and occupation of the fortified seaport of Louisbourg, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The text of the diary is written in the margins of a printed book: Francis Gentleman's The History of the Robinhood Society, published in London in 1764. The content of the book is of no relevance to the content of the diary. Thus, this copy of the diary necessarily postdates the events described by at least nineteen years. Nothing in the existing volume suggests why, when, or by whom the copy was made. Still, there is no reason to doubt its status as a transcription of a lost original, kept by Curtice during the Louisbourg siege. Relevant to this is the fact that a second copy diary of Curtice's exists, recording his experiences in the Montreal campaign of 1760, during the French and Indian War. This, too, is copied in a printed book, published in 1776; its formatting is like that of the Louisbourg diary in every respect, and it is written in the same scrupulous eighteenth century hand. It seems probable that the two volumes were copied on the same occasion. If this is so, the Louisbourg manuscript would almost certainly date from the last quarter of the eighteenth century. An attribution to Curtice himself seems likely, though this cannot be proved.