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Oran project and royal decree tied to Barbary coast
Seville reports a royal plan to recover Oran with 30,000 troops under Montemar, shipping and transports mobilized, and a decree seeking divine blessing for the expedition. Letters from Hamburg to Madrid note Copenhagen treaty, while Danes prepare to move. Paris and Florence gossip cover ceremonies and political maneuvers as Spain vies for empire against Barbary forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fepa
Oran
Spain
Alicant
Count de Montemar
Hamburgh
N.S
Petersburg
Count of Otterman
Copenhagen
China
Sib
Walloe
Hanover
N. S
Denmark
Amsterdam
Paris
Algiers
Valencia
Cape Ferro
Florence
St. John Baptist
Infante
Don Carlos
Gabrieli
Rome
Fene
Se. Peter’s
Madrid
Mendicane
St. Mary de Almuneda
Cardinal de Astorga
Toledo
Cape de Paris
Barbary
Mademoiselle de la Lande
M. de la Lande
Versailles
Bureaus of War
France
M. Canaye
Marchiones de Baliere
M. de Cornac
Mademoiselle du Roy
M. de la Chartraire St. Aignan
Dhe
Burgundy
M. de Romilly