Catalogue description LETTERS FROM ADMIRALS ETC. - BRAZILS

The Brazils or South America station at this period covered both East and West coasts of South and Central America outside the Caribbean. It owed its inception in part to the flight of the portuguese royal family to Brazil in 1809, and the first reportsin this class are from the squadron which escorted them from Lisbon. The remaining pieces consist entirely of reports from successive commanders-in-chief of the station.

When using the ADM 12 indexes to search for papers in ADM 1, documents in this sub-sub-series have the reference: 'Qa'