Informs Brown that Corcelle and De La Tour d’Auvergne arrived on a mission from the government of the French Rrepublic. They left almost immediately for the Camp, "but as to what instructions given them, or powers they are endowed with, we here are perfectly ignorant. Tomorrow it is said that an attack will be made by the French, that is to say they will make a Breach with their heavy arillery and attempt an entry by that, unless the abovenamed gentlemen bring counter orders, but on this score I fear there is little to hope for."
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Lowe, Alfred, Civita Vecchia US consul to Brown, Nicholas, Rush Hawkins collection, Ms.2006.05, Brown University Library
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This collection contains images of documents in the Rush Hawkins collection (Ms.2006.05) relating to the First Italian War of Independence. Annmary Brown Hawkins (1837-1903) was married to Rush Hawkins and she was the daughter of Nicholas Brown III (1792-1859). Nicholas …
