Additional Descriptive Data

The Manuscripts Division has detailed a calendar of the Eyre Coote papers. The following calendar contains item-level description and additional background information on the Coote genealogy: Eyre Coote Papers Calendar.

Timeline of Eyre Coote's military placements:

• American Revolutionary War (1776-1782)
• England and Ireland (1782-1792)
• West Indies (1794, 1796)
• Bandon, County Cork, Ireland (1796-1798)
• Dover, England (1797-1798)
• Ostend, Netherlands (1798)
• Dover, England (1798-1799)
• Den Helder, Netherlands (1799)
• Dover, England (1800-1801)
• Egypt 1801
• England and Ireland (1801-1805)
• Jamaica (1806-1808)
• Walcheren, Netherlands (1809)
• England (1810-1819)

Newspaper Clipping publication list:

• Bell's Weekly Messenger, 3 items, 1798-1802
• The British Chronicle or Pugh's Hereford Journal, 1 item, 1779
• The British Gazette, 1 item, 1926
• The British Press, 4 items, 1813-1815
• The Dublin Journal, 1 item, 1782
• Finn's Leinster Journal, 1 item, 1783
• The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 7 items, 1780-1782
• The Gibraltar Chronicle, 2 items, 1801
• The Kentish Register, 1 item, 1794
• Lloyd's Evening Post, 4 items, 1766
• The London Gazette, 2 items, 1809
• St. James's Chronicle, or the British Evening Post, 5 items, 1763-1782
• The Middlesex Journal or Chronicle of Liberty, 1 item, 1770
• The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 1 item, 1782
• The Morning Chronicle, 21 items, 1797-1798, 1808-1815
• The Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 2 items, 1782-1783
• The Pilot, 1 item, 1813
• The Public Advertiser, 2 items, 1791-1792
• The Star, 5 items, 1801, 1809
• The Sun, 11 items, 1798-1803
• The Times, 1 item, 1801
• The Weekly Register, 2 items, 1798
• The Westminster Magazine, 1 item, 1783
• Turmuch, 1 item, 1917 (in Bashkir and Russian)
• Unzer Leben, 2 items, 1917 (in Yiddish, Russian, and Ukranian)

Separated Materials

The following 33 maps are located in the Clements Library Map Division:

• Bean, J., Sayer, R. A new hydrographic sketch of the north, south, and middle channels, 1782.
• Bean, John. A new hydrographic sketch of the north, south, and middle channels. London: Robert Sayre, 1786, with numerous manuscript additions.
• Cowan, John. This chart of the River Shannon, Ireland. London : ca. 1794, 1793 sheets of varying size.
• Faden, W. Sketch of the town and harbor of Ostend, Belgium, 1798.
• Ford, W. H. A map of the peninsula of Abū Qīr Bay (Aboukir).
• Island of Walcheren, Netherlands.
• Kauffer. Carte de l’Egypte, Constantinople (Istanbul Turkey).
• La Chausée, le comte de. Reconnoissance militaire du pays…entre Bandon…et Mucroom, Cork, Ireland.
• La Chaussée. Reconnaissance militaire du pays compris entre Bantry, Inchegeelagh, Dunmanway..., 1797.
• Luffman, John. A map of the seat of war between Russia and France. London: n.d.
• Luffman, John. The roads from London to Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Luxemburg, Aix la Chapelle..., 1814.
• Luffman, John. The roads from London to Paris. London, 1814.
• Mackellar, John. Plan of Ostend, 1798.
• Mackellar, John. Plan of Ostend, Belgium (from Coote journal), 1798.
• Map of the island of Walcheren, 1809.
• Map of the lines at Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1810.
• Map of the Nile from Alkaam to Giza, Egypt, n.d.
• Map of part of the coast of Egypt … [London]: T. Egerton, 1800.
• Military sketch of the roads, & c. County of Cork, Ireland (title from verso), n.d.
• Ostend, Belgium (title from verso), n.d.
• Popham, H. Riggs. Map of Ostend, Belgium, 1798.
• Reconnaissance militaire...Bantry...de Dunmanus (Bantry, Ireland), 1797.
• Redoubt for 250 men, n.d.
• Sketch of the movements made by the troops under the command of Major Genl. Coote…Alexandria, Egypt, n.d.
• Sketch of the position before Flushing, 1809.
• Terrot, Charles. Flushing fortifications with the number & calibre of guns..., 1809.
• Terrot, Charles. Theoutline of Flushing with the guns, 1809.
• Walsh, Thomas. A chart of the bay of Marmorice, near Asia Minor (Anatolia), 1801.
• Walsh, Thomas. Entrance of the harbor from the inside, 1800.
• Walsh, Thomas. Plan of Major General Coote’s landing…westward of Alexandria. Cadell & Davies, 1803.
• Walsh, Thomas. Sketch of the harbor of Valletta, Malta, 1800.
• Walsh, Thomas, Ford, W. H. A map of the peninsula of Aboukir including different positions, 1801.
• Walsh, Thomas, Torfino de San Miguel, V. Plan of the entrance and port of Ferrol in latitude 13 [degrees] 29' 30" & longitude 1 [degree] 49' of the meridian of Cadiz..., 1789.

Related Materials

The following collections contain letters from Eyre Coote:

• The William Petty, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne papers
• The Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney papers

Additional Eyre Coote papers may be found at the following institutions:

• British Library, London
• Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, Hampshire
• Centre for Kentish Studies, Kent, United Kingdom
• Special Collections, Glucksman Library, University of Limerick, Ireland
• National Library of Ireland

Bibliography

Carpenter, Stanley D. M. "Coote, Eyre (bap. 1759, d. 1823)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press: Oxford, England, 2004.

Coote, E., C.H. Coote, and D.A. Fleming. The correspondence of Eyre Coote with his brother, Charles Henry Coote, and others on the Irish Act of Union, 1799-1800. Dublin: Stationery Office of Saorstát Eírean, 2007.

Walsh, T. and E. Coote. Journal of the late campaign in Egypt: including descriptions of that country and of Gibralter, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri : with an appendix containing official papers and documents. London: Printed by Luke Hansard, for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1803.