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Lot Number: 48
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Bookplate from the Library of John Campbell 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782), Governor-General for Virginia 1750 |
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John Campbell 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782), Bookplate engraved with his Coat of Arms, Governor-General for Virginia 1750, and was a British Army Officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, North America from 1756 to 1757, Framed, Choice Extremely Fine. This rare historic Bookplate is from the Library of John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, 1705-1782. It measures 3,5” x 2.5” (by sight) extremely well printed on clean period paper with the original Copper-Plate impression visible. He was Governor-General for Virginia, and Commander in Chief of the Forces in America circa 1750. (Benjamin Franklin provides several firsthand anecdotes of Loudon's North American days in his Autobiography, none of which is complimentary.) This engraved Bookplate includes the Coat of Arms for John Campbell, displaying; A Coronet of an Earl; An Eagle with two necks displayed gules in a flame of fire proper; Gyronny of eight ermine and gules.; Dexter: an armed man bearing a pick on his shoulder proper; Sinister: a lady richly attired with a signet letter in her sinister hand proper; and (Motto) “I Bide My Time”. It is housed in an very old wood frame measuring 4.75” x 3.75” with hanging loop at top. Provenance: A Major History Museum in Virginia.He raised a Highland regiment of infantry, Loudon's Highlanders, which took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 on the side of the Hanoverian government. The regiment consisted of twelve companies, with Loudoun as colonel and John Campbell (later 5th Duke of Argyll) as lieutenant-colonel. The regiment served in several different parts of Scotland. Three of the twelve companies, raised in the south, were captured at the Battle of Prestonpans. Eight companies, under the personal command of Lord Loudoun, were stationed in Inverness. Loudoun set out in February 1746 with that portion of his regiment and several of the Independent Companies in an attempt to capture the Jacobite pretender, Charles Edward Stuart. The expedition was met by a ruse de guerre by only four Jacobites, which suggested a large force was protecting Stuart, and it returned without engagement. That was later publicised as the Rout of Moy. Loudoun then fell back to join the Duke of Cumberland's army up and gave up the town of Inverness to the rebels. After the Battle of Culloden, Loudoun led his mixed force of regulars, militia and Highlanders in mopping-up operations against the remaining rebels. In 1756, Loudoun was sent to North America as Commander-in-Chief and Governor General of Virginia, where he was unpopular with many of the colonial leaders. When he learned that some merchants were still trading with the French while he was trying to fight a war against them, he temporarily closed all American ports. Despite his unpopularity the County of Loudoun, formed from Fairfax in 1757, was named in his honour.[1] As Commander-in-Chief during the Seven Years' War, called the French and Indian War in the Thirteen Colonies, he planned an expedition to seize Louisbourg from the French in 1757 but he called it off when intelligence, possibly including a French deception, indicated that the French forces there were too strong for him to defeat. While Loudoun was thus engaged in Canada, French forces captured Fort William Henry from the British, and he was replaced by James Abercrombie and returned to London. Francis Parkman, a 19th-century historian of the Seven Years' War, rates Loudun's martial conduct of the affair poorly. Many historians debate whether he played a fundamental part in the Seven Years' War. Arguably, he was an influential figure as he embarked on reforms for the army such as replacing the ordinary musket with the flintlock musket for greater accuracy. He made improvements by embarking on a road improvement programme and recognised the need to supply the army as he replaced the traditional supply line with army wagons. His focus was centralising the system of supplies and had built storehouses in Halifax and Albany and recognised the importance of waterways as a means of transport. Most notably, he integrated regular troops with local militias, and the irregulars were to fight a different kind of war from the linear European style of warfare in which the British had previously been trained. |
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Lot Number: 48
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