Fragmented 1815 war dispatch details grim in Europe
Reports describe heavy casualties, massed fugitives, and extensive loot as Allied forces push toward victory. Generals Lauriston Bertrand and Latour Maubourg are noted among the captured. Buonaparte reportedly escaped a prisoner’s fate, while Nugent and Freemantle report successes and reinforcements along the Istrian coast.
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Marcas
At A Wbich
Im. Y
Bonaparte
Prince Pra
Mae Macdonald
Spurre
Pleiss
Poniatowaki
Macdoiah
Lauriston
Bertrand
Mandeville
Peri
Krazinig
Bronikowsky
Kaminiensky
Krautenstrauck
Blucher
Prussia
Weissenfels
Firce Schwartzenberg
Jena
Zeitz
Wrede
Kunaburgh
Maria Theresa
Russi
Order of St. George
Europe
Great Britain
Aberdeen
Vicount
Capture of Mezzo Island by Saracen and Weazle
Vice Admiral Sir Edward Pellew reports via John Wilson Croker a letter to Rear Admiral Freemantle detailing the capture of Mezzo Island near Raguse by Captain Harper's sloop Saracen and the Weazle on the 22d of November.
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Admiralty Office
Edward Pellew
Dura Freemantle
John Wilson Croker
Sir Edward Pellew
Freemantle
Harper
Saracen
Mezzo
Ragus
Nineteenth Century Naval Actions Near Ragusa and Cape Tinoso
Report details Harper landing marines on the 17th to seize a fortress near Ragusa, with a 22nd surrender after mounting batteries on a rocky summit. One marine killed, two wounded. Captain Purvis notes the capture of the French privateer Vauteur at Cape Tinoso, with 80 men at start and 47 aboard mutinous.
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Eagle
Rovigno
Istria
Bacchante
Hoste
Royal Marines
Cape Qtranto
la Tonnante
M. Simon
Enseigne de Vais- Beau
M.n.cranotich
Fanno
J. Buack
B. W. Taylor
His
Apollo
Corfu
Joly Tant
Fiyforce
Ragusa
Cepia ‘Harper
Great Britain
Harper
Black
Saracen
Purvis
Cape Tinoso
Cette
Allied Armies drive French from Leipsic area reports
Bremen and New Bremen Gazettes describe the retreat and dispersion of French forces after Leipsic. The Crown Prince of Sweden leads the North Army toward Cassel and Gottingen, with the Grand Army of Bohemia near Frankfurt. Proclamations dissolve French Bremen authority as Tsarist and Swedish forces maneuver through Thuringia and Saxon regions.
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Bremen
Leipsic
Rhine
Sweden
Cassel
Gottingen
Hanover
Bohemia
Frankfort
Ettenborn
Minden
Napoleon peace terms and Bremen war notices
From the Bremen Gazette dated Oct 29 and Oct 31 1815, Napoleon’s peace terms provoke astonishment as Poland faces ceding lands and the Saxon indemnity while the Mecklenburg Landsturm bears a yellow cross and the Hanseatic Legion a red one. The article also reprints General Baron Von Tettenborn’s call for Bremen volunteers to join a Hanseatic squadron and a notification restricting requisitions unless authorized by Tettenborn, dated Oct 30 1815.
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New Bremen
Beatin
von Blucher
Tenth Army
Eisenach
Leipsig
Count von Langeron
von Sacken
Skeuditz
Sacken
Vasilshikoff
Elster
Napoleon
Mark-Rannstadt
Vasilchikoff
Lutzen
Langeron
von Yorck
Halle
Rossbach
Weissenfels
Freiburg
Rosen
Saale
Vield-Marshal von Blucher
King Frederick
Querfurth
Unstrut
Count. von Henkel
von York
Unstratt
Bremen
Europe
Poland
Saxony
Duchy of Warsaw
Fecklenburg Landsturm
Hanseatic Legion
Baron von Tettenborn
Coset
Lezhon
Germany
Max Gecxine
Potic
Baron Vou. Tettenborn
prophecy and policy in the british crisis of 1809
A commentary from the Edinburgh Review of January 1809 warns against party division as Britain faces looming danger. It argues for unified national strength, critiques ministers and opposition alike, laments lost peace, and predicts Europe’s ruin while noting Britain's dependence on costly restraints and commercial decrees that may rebound on itself.
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Edinburgh Review
Daniel
Europe
England
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Weser
Croker
Joel Braak
Senate of
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Wizard
Anthor
Croatia
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Nugent
Lippa
Pola
Gem Nugent
Adelsberg
Frume
Nugear
Nurgent
Tan
Nugebt
Garison
Lusin
Brioni
Trieste
Lissa
Gower
Fontane
Major Slicer
Gen. Nugenta
Ragosniza
Grant
Parker
Weazle
T. VF. Freamantle
Dart. &c
C. Bowery
Wavannah
Adriatic
N. W
Manfredonia
G. Capocay
Admiral Freémintle
Bulletin
Foreign Office
Heligoland
Russias
Son von Tettenborn
Unstrat
Sommerda
Ertort
Tennstadt
Langensalza
Gotha
Horselsberg
Tuczerwich
Horsel
Elckrodt
Thuringia
Vach
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