Irish Troops Migration, Cork to Quebec.

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Document ID 200462
Date 30-12-1777
Document Type Newspapers (Extracts)
Archive Linenhall Library
Citation Irish Troops Migration, Cork to Quebec.;The Londonderry Journal and General Advertiser, Tuesday, Dec., 30, 1777, Vol VI, No 581. ; CMSIED 200462
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Ireland

Cork, Dec. 15.
We are informed that the gallant 62nd regiment,
which embarked here last year for Quebec,
and was then above 500 strong, consisted of 72 men
only, when the British surrendered on the 16th of October.