Stockport, 17th Oct., 1803 : a requisition, signed by several inhabitants of this town, being addressed to us, to convene an early meeting, for the purpose of deliberating on the necessity of forming a corps of reserve in the town ... to resist the enemy, should he be so successful as to penetrate into the interior of the country to the manufactories ... / C. Prescot, J. Philips.

  • Prescot, C.
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1803
  • Ephemera

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Handbill / small poster advertising a meeting at the Dog and Partridge Inn, Stockport about forming a home guard / reserve army to defend the town in case of the French invading Britain and reaching the North West during the Napoleonic wars in late 1803.

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Stockport : [publisher not identified], 1803 (Stockport : J. Clarke)

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1 broadside ; 27 cm

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