TANGIERS.

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A Particular Narrative of a Great Engagement between the Garison [sic] of Tangier, and the Moors, First edition, conspicuously uncommon, ESTC citing just 14 locations worldwide (six in the UK, the remainder in the US), with only one copy appearing on auction records and that dating to 1937. Superb first-hand account that sheds light on a conflict in a contested area of North Africa where Britain had established a defensive and commercial foothold in 1661, in what was referred to as West Barbary, nomenclature used by the chaplain to the garrison at Tangier, and later dean of Lichfield, Lancelot Addison, in his book West Barbary, or, A Short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco (London, 1671). "However, the Tangier episode provided the opportunity for close and sustained contact with the local population both in times of peace and war" (Karim Bejjit (ed.), English Colonial Texts on Tangier, 1661-1684: Imperialism and the Politics of Resistance, 2016, p. xi). The distinguished historian Linda Colley goes on to say that "In the official mind, Tangier was projected as a substantial colony of settlement with an agenda from the start of expansion, commerce and anglicisation... The English had always recognized of course that occupying Tangier would bring them into direct contact with Muslim societies, but they had been divided as to the likely consequences of this... Moreover, it was thought that if the Royal Navy could only succeed in establishing itself

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