Arraignments and executions in a 1815 Paris crisis
Twenty persons faced the Court of Assizes at Nismes over the 1815 killings of royal volunteers in Arpaillarges during the Duke of Angouleme's exile. Eight condemned to death, one to perpetual labor and branding. Other items note Angouleme's Aix visit, Kosciusko in Switzerland, Spain's harvest, and a Swiss avalanche.
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Nismes
Court of Assizes
Duke of
Jeanne Verdus
Jean Brisson
Jacques Boisson
Elizabeth Basti
Smyrna
Marquis de Riviere
Constantinople
Canton of
St. Gall
Switzerland
Saint Jacques
Olivieri Morillo
Lyons Javy 18 Lourt-Martial On General Duvernet
The court sat two days in the trial of General Duvernet for treason. He testified that after returning from Heangary he accepted the King’s Cross of St Louis and oath of fidelity, claiming loyalty while serving the King. He admitted meeting Buonaparte’s envoy and joining Buonaparte at Lyons on March 10, sought Grenoble dispatches, and defended his actions as compelled by circumstances amidst court testimonies and witness depositions.
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Duvernet
France
Heangary
Cross of St. Louis
Grenoble
Upper
Lyons
Bertrand
Journal de Pacis
Ten Odock
Mouton Davernet
Messrs
Marnas
Passet
Mroiterraxian
Tripoli
Barbary
St. Maurice
Stein Gastaldez
Marseilles
Rebellion at Lieven over tobacco plots and National Guard orders
An 1815 article notes a clash on the 12th in Lieven commune Bethune arrondissement where revenue officers pursuing contraband tobacco fled after a tocsin. The prefect arrests the principal malefactors for transport to St Omer. July 23 items report figures arriving in Philadelphia, Dijon scandal, and Mouton Duvernet death sentence.
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Anras
Lieven
Bethune
St. Omer
National Guard
Phiadehitia
Ladlemind
Ose Dical
Navn dJam
Billaud de Varennes
Robespiers
New York
Cayenne
Dijon
Leroux
Frankfort
Carlsbad
Prague
Mouton Duvernet
Lyons
Berri
Monsieur
Scene in Ghent as fears of the apocalypse spread
An observer from Ghent reports uproar and fear as residents kneeled in streets after a cavalry retreat. They believed the Seventh Trumpet signaled the end of the world, reflecting dramatic panic amid a stormy night and public terror.
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Ghent
Journal of the Worth
Alarming rise of personal crisis reports in southern provinces
Reports from officer records show nine months of escalating crime across six southern provinces with at least 37 crisis reports and numerous church burglaries. A feared figure, Beenmorto, described as monstrous with human bones, terrorizes Montelecre area after a Sicilian start, now linked to a larger brigand network. Five accomplices captured. authorities vow action.
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Offgn
Dutch governor surveys Ancobar river for land purchase
General Darndels, governor of Dutch forts on the Gold Coast, reports Ancobar river navigation to the Dinkiva country center and suggests joint English Dutch trading posts on both river banks with Ashantee king’s consent to attract regional commerce. He cites Bosman era navigation and ancient maps showing Portuguese establishments on the Alcohar interior.
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Gold Coast
Darndels
Ancobar
Ancobag
Dinkiva
Ashantee
Bosman
Portugues
Alcohar
Tae Gener
West Indies Intelligence on Slave Instruction and U S Frigate Moves
A British correspondent reports on Barbados slave insurrection lessons. planters urged harsher control citing educated slaves. Jamaica hears that the US frigate Macedonian, 36 guns, under Capt Warrings tom, demanded U S citizens be handed over at Santa Marta, with threats of reprisals off Cartagena as a Liverpool packet brought the news.
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Barbadoes
Nesto
Jamaica
United States
Macedonian
Warringstom
Santa Martha
Carthagena
Liverpool Packet
Almerican
Santa-Martha
US Ship Washington Admired By Baltimore Visitors
A Baltimore group visited the United States ship Washington off Annapolis on Saturday and were received by Commodore Chauncey. They praised the vessel, noting a crew of about 600 in good spirits, disciplined, and skilled with the guns. Decks were clean and mess kits neatly arranged with two Bibles per mess, amid general gratification.
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Baltimore
United States
Washington
Chauncey
Annapolis
Regnault
de St. Jean d’Angely
Havre
New York
Valto
Bernard (de Saintes
Madeira
Clausel
Grouchy
Lefebvre Desnuueltes
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Foreign Intelligence
Paris Papers
Javy
General Mouton
Buussers
Jery
Nearoritan Rocarr
Narces
Montelecre
Beenmorto
Sicily
Lepari
West Indies
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