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Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718)
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The Memoirs of Alexander Ramkins is a memoir of a hardworking and impressive military officer deserving of high praise. Excerpt: "I was not above Seventeen Years of Age when the Battle of Gillycranky was fought between the Two Highland Generals, the Lord Viscount Dundee and Mackay. And being then a Stripling at the University of Aberdeen and understanding that several Clans were gathering into a Body in defense of King James III sold my Books and Furniture of my Lodgings, and equipped myself to observe the Martial Call, I found myself prompted with."
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Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.
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