Early Newspaper Accounts for the 78th Regiment [2nd Highland Battalion]

In the English-speaking world, the earliest predecessors of the newspaper were corantos, or small news pamphlets produced only when some event worthy of notice occurred. The first successively published title was The Weekly Newes of 1622. It was followed in the 1640s and 1650s by a plethora of different titles in the similar newsbook form. The first true newspaper in English was the London Gazette...