About this book
A Journal of the Expedition to Carthagena With Notes: In Answer to a Late Pamphlet Entitled, An account of the Expedition to Carthagena by Anonymous confronts the controversy surrounding the 1741 British assault on Cartagena with a clear-eyed, contemporaneous voice. This primary-source journal follows the fleet from Jamaica and records the most material occurrences ashore and at sea, while the appended notes explicitly rebut a rival pamphlet’s account. The manuscript blends naval history, military reportage, and political polemic: it lays out timelines, eyewitness observations, and documentary claims intended to correct public record and sway parliamentary opinion during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
Readers will encounter meticulous descriptions of strategy, storm and sickness, command decisions, and the administrative disputes that shaped the expedition’s outcome—presented without modern hindsight but with a partisan’s urgency. The work is as much an evidentiary defense as a travelogue, revealing how 18th-century imperial warfare was narrated, contested, and recorded.
Ideal for listeners of historical non-fiction, naval and military history enthusiasts, researchers of 18th-century British imperial politics, and anyone who prefers primary documents over retrospective summaries—this audiobook offers an immersive, forensic look at a pivotal colonial campaign and the public debate it ignited.
