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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 379 — 330.

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John Dyke Acland, best known by the devotion of his wife, Lady Harriet, was wounded and taken prisoner at Saratoga (October 9). He died in October, 1778, from a cold caught at a duel on Bampton Down, in Devonshire. He was then M.P. for Callington, in Cornwall.

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