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1746 Hume accepted an invitation from his cousin, Lieutenant-General James St Clair, to serve as his secretary. St Clair was shortly afterwards given command of a military expedition, originally conceived as an attack on French Canada, but abandoned as too late in the year for an Atlantic crossing and redirected into an amphibious assault on the coast of Brittany. The resulting Raid on Lorient (29 September - 10 October 1746) aimed

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