Copy of a letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to Rear-Adm. Robert Digby, requesting that, as the threat from the French fleet is now more likely to be in the West Indies than off the American coast, all British battle ships should join him in returning there.

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Copy of a Letter to Rear Admiral Digby 31st Octr 1781