Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
Gentleman’s Magazine, London, May 1757, 52pp., disbound, VG. From the front page, “In several former magazines we have given an account of the contest between France and Great Britain concerning the territories in America mentioned in the treaty of Utrecht; of several Indian traders seized by the French on the Ohio, and sent prisoners to France, but afterwards enlarged on the interposition of Lord Albemarle and of the murder of Mr Jumonville by a party of English, under Major Washington.” In some quarters, Washington was believed to have murdered or allowed to be murdered, his captured French prisoner Sieur de Jumonville. Washington was heavily criticized in Britain for the incident. British statesman Horace Walpole referred to the controversy surrounding Jumonville's death as the "Jumonville Affair" and described it as "a volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire."
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