Letter 4422

John Armstrong to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1732


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Date: February 7, 1732
Author: John Armstrong
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 62-63



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John Armstrong (1674-1742) was a military engineer. He served as Lieutenant in St John’s Regiment of Foot (1691), under the Duke of Marlborough, as Major-General and Quartermaster-General (1713), Chief Engineer of England (1714-death), Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Foot in Ireland (1717), and Master Surveyor of the Ordnance (1722). Armstrong was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723 (Paul Latcham, ‘Armstrong, John (1674–1742)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2014 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/659, accessed 24 Aug 2015]).




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