Book excerpt: Excerpt from Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, Vol. 5 of 6: From 1727 to 1783 flip: of war purcbajed by Government, and added to tbe royal navy, 27. Earl Cornwallif appointed Governor of Cbarle/lown and Sent/i Carolina - Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.