WITH reference to last weeks letter “Sad Closure”
by Captain B, Thomas, RN while I agree it is sad to see the closure of the Royal Oak at Fishguard, it is also commonly appreciated that the Treaty which is claimed was signed there, could never have been done so, as the French Army if entering Fishguard would have seen that there were very few troops stationed there, and would have realised the march of the Fishguard women in red cloak’s was a complete bluff !
There is no trace of this important military document, if one would have been produced it would not have been signed at the Royal Oak, as Tate never got to Fishguard.
Lord Cawdor rode over to Trehowel to receive the surrender on Friday morning, if a treaty was produced it would probably have been signed at an outlying farmhouse in order to keep the French from finding out this deception, as stated by Commander EH Stuart Jones RN in his authoritative book, The Last Invasion of Britain.
D F STEPHENS
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