ABSTRACT
This section draws upon an unnamed soldier's journal which describes the British attacks on the coast of France in 1758. As with the operations of 1757, this engagement was an attempt to draw off French forces from the western European theater of operations. This soldier describes the events of that summer; he gives excellent insight into camp life, rations in the fleet and lack of training. He also highlights the difficulty of combined operations, when troops are caught without artillery support. Sadly, the author never mentioned his own name in the journal or its date of publication, so we can determine very little about the person who wrote this account.
