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Charles Blagden in Revolutionary America: Two Unpublished Letters to John Lloyd (2017)

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Prior to becoming a secretary of the Royal Society in 1784 Charles Blagden (bapt. 1748–d. 1820) served as a surgeon in the British army during the Revolutionary War in America. In the two unpublished letters of 1778 discussed here, Blagden provides his Welsh friend John Lloyd (1749–1815) with a vivid description of the current state of affairs in America, from a British perspective, and with insights into continuing scientific endeavour in a time of war. The letters illustrate the attempt that two men made to keep alive an intellectual life and are testimony to the rapidity with which matters of scientific interest could be disseminated in the eighteenth century, even during a major international conflict.

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Authors & Contributors
Marshall, Tabitha
Adelman, Joseph M.
Swedberg, Sarah L.
Richard H. Brown
Wehrman, Andrew
Wulf, Andrea
Concepts
Correspondence and corresponding
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Science and politics
Great Britain, colonies
Science and war; science and the military
Cross-national interaction
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
United States
France
Great Britain
Atlantic world
Atlantic Ocean
England
Institutions
United States. Department of the Treasury
Great Britain. Army
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Royal Society of London
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