War News From Across Europe and Ireland
From Aug to Sept reports reach Madrid Stockholm and Vienna on royal illness naval and land maneuvers in Sweden Brandenburg Prussia Bavaria and France. Baltic actions include troop movements, fortifications and alliances as Britain Ireland report canal progress and a harvest upturn with merchants praised for grain relief efforts. Alderman Morris dies in Waterford.
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Tireland
Dublin
Newry
Tuscanpass
America
Cork Hill
Waterford
Alderman Morris
Port News Arrivals and Convoy Movements Across Ports
Lancaster reports arrival of Mary and Anne from Jamaica. At Plymouth the Dartmouth leads a convoy including the Planter and many ships bound for Gibraltar. Deal notes the St Andrew for Cork. Gravesend records several arrivals from Oporto and elsewhere including the Sea Nymph and Henry. Petersbourg sees the Eagle from Lisbon and Recovery from Liverpool while Plymouth observes the Lake from Barbados.
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Lancaster
Mary
Anne
Birchall
Jamaica
Plymouth
Dartmouth
Templewest
Gibraltar
Planter
Dunscomb
Friendship
Ketteridge
Expedition
Johnson
Tilly
Dove
Hopewell
Lemon
Chettle
Draper
Moore
Thomas
Hyde
Happy Jennet
Maclish
Bellica
War News from Europe and London Notices
Private letters from Stockholm quote Russian Minister Bertucheff lamenting war between crowns and noting failed reconciliation efforts. French letters appoint the Elector of Bavaria generalissimo with power to command armies in Germany. Reports detail troop mobilizations, camps near Barnhorf and Hamelen, and dispatches to Hanover. Also: Walpole heads to Houghton Hall, Mountfort elected High Steward, Lord Oxford deceased, Castell Sherara of Town dies, Whitehorne the confectioner dies, cannon proof at Woolwich, and Indiaman purser report on ship arrivals.
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Hungary
Madrid
Versailles
Don Philip
Italy
Stockholm
Finland
Teflin
Petersbourg
Sweden
Sinclair
Marquess de la Chetardie
Paris
Vienna
France
Presbourg
Bavaria
Robinson
Silesia
Breslaw
Prussia
Cologn
Juliers
Bergues
Cleves
Nuremberg
Munich
Scharding
Lorrain
Rhine
Metz
Constantinople
Louis
Elector of
Germany
Hanover
Great Britain
Barnhorf
Diepholtz
Hamelen
Brussels
M.de Buffy
N.S
Europe
Robert Walpole
Lord Walpole
Houghton Hall
Norfolk
Treasury
Cambridge
Henry Lord Mountfort
Edward Late Earl of
Oxford
Deceas
Hustingdon
Castel Sherara
Not Town
Pall Mall
Whitehorne
Woolwich
Ordnance
Princess of Wales Indias
Ing
Also Mentioned on This Page
Holland
Rome
Palatinate
Spires
Port News
London
M. Bertucheff
Givet
Calais
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