This week at The Archive we are delighted to welcome 675,584 brand new pages to our collection, as we introduce 6 brand new titles, including our first ever newspaper from the country of Malta. Meanwhile, we have updated an astounding 96 of our existing titles, from Acton to Ayrshire, from Billericay to Bridgend, from Gwent to Galloway, from Plymouth to Pontypridd, we have added new pages to titles from across England, Wales and Scotland. So read on to discover more …
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The French garrison in Valletta signed the surrender (or ‘capitulation’, to use the language in this dispatch) on 5 December 1800, and Malta then became a UK protectorate. Malta had been occupied by the French in May 1798, when an invasion fleet of 30,000 men led by Napoleon sailed from Toulon. Here is a dispatch, written on 5 September 1800 by Major General Pigot to General Sir R. Abercrombie, which describes the surrender of the French forces at Valletta. Hampshire …