Prolonged Flanders Mail Describes Bavarian Operations
The letter from Ratisbon on December 3 details lines at Stadt-am-hoff finished and Palisades planted for a French crossing. It notes French provisioning dire, cavalry moves into Swabia, and Bavarian sieges revived while European powers boast of future efforts and levies.
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Stadt-am-hoff
Weix
Danube
M. de la Noue
Swabia
Bavaria
Prague
England
Holland
Prussia
Saxony
French Generals Offered Quarters in Augsburg Refused
Letters from Augsburg report Marshal Broglio sent an adjutant general to ask the magistrates to allow French generals to winter in the city. The magistrates refused and mobilized citizens militia and artillery to deter any forceful action, preparing to defend the town.
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London Gazette
Augsbourg
Marshal Broglio
Port News Report of Downs Arrivals in December
The December Port News notes the Serpent Bomb and the Prosperity, Colmes bound for Lisbon remain in the Downs. The Hibernia Sears from London arrived at Virginia as winds push east.
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Deal
The
Downs
Colmes
Lisbon
Wind
Virginia
Hibernia
Sears
London
Curious London Gazette account of Spaniards expedition
The London Gazette reports a remarkable note that Spaniards could not locate Georgia without a Paris from Port Royal in South Carolina, plus various obituaries and war updates. It mentions Captain Broderick sailing to defend Carolina and Georgia, Vernon and Wentworth preparing to return, and ship losses near the Navarra. Includes court appointments in Whitehall and Treasury secretary changes.
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London Gazette
Georgia
Paris
Port Royal
South Carolina
Dottor’s Commons
Farrant
Court of Arches
St. Clement’s Churchyard
Strand
Mars. Ruffel
Andrews
Aldgate
Cleveland
Bartler
Holbourn
Jamaica
Broderick
Shoreham
Carolina
Gibraltar
Fowke
England
Vernon
Wentworth
Tilbury
Navarra
Hore
Whitehall
Thomas Parker
Court of Common Pleas
S Court of Exchequer
Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury
John Jefferys
John Scrope
Henry Furnes
Bankrupts and theatre notices at Drury Lane Covent Garden
Bankruptcy notices for Isaac Jacobs William Worthington and Thomas Cooper appear alongside theatre listings for The Bec Gar's Opera Richard the Third and The Rehearsal with the Virgin Unma t'd. Also stock prices and high way repairs meeting announced for Islington Turnpike at the King's Head Tavern Holborn.
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Isaac Jacobs
St. Mary Axe
London
William Worthington
Bolton
The
Moors
County of
Lancaster
Thomas Cooper
Cornhill
Draper and Chapman
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Bec- Gar
Islington
Highgate Gatehouse
Hampstead
Middlesex
King’s Head Tavern
Middle-Row
Holbourn
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Flanders
Ratisbon
Schardingen
Schonau
Berendau
Kevenhuller
Landau
Allerspach
Wilthoffen
Tummeldorff
Hergerstadt
Bernau
Berlin
Count de Finckenstein
Stockholm
France
Versailles
Port News
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Toxhalf
John Young
St. Paul’s Church-Yard
Broad- Mead
Bristol
Lucretius de Rerum
Guernier
Dan. Browne
Price
Hanover
Great Britain
T. Cooper
Globe
Paternoster Row
Capire
Thomas Mavox
C. Davis
Gray’s Inn
Holborn
A. Millar
Warkerine-Screee
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