ABSTRACT
The London Evening Post did not have as high a circulation as the Gazette, but it had reached a readership of several thousand by the 1770s. This account of troop embarkation from Ireland to fight in North America in the Seven Years War would have been interesting to its readers, which included many in England’s countryside as well as the metropolis. The article supports other evidence that army families’ grief at the quayside was an important site for eliciting charity from onlookers. In the absence of a poor relief system in Ireland, Irish soldiers’ wives were particularly vulnerable when they were separated from their husbands by war.
