Fleet and land ops shift in Spain Italy and Bohemia
Reports from Genoa Madrid and Rome detail a vast Armada of over 9600 sailors and 24 gun ships, moving via the Streights of Gibraltar toward Italy under Admiral Haddock. Simultaneous dispatches note Spanish troop movements, Austrian and Bavarian maneuvers, and a potential general peace mediated by France with a Milanese defense plan and 30,000 troops poised for Italy.
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Gibraltar
Haddock Jay
Don Philip
Italy
Havanna
Torres
Europe
Madrid
Spain
England
France
Genoa
Duke de Montemar
Republick
Antibes
Orbittello
Lombardy
Tuscany
Barcelona
Vienna
Rome
Abruzzia
Pearce
Mantua
Milan
Prague
Bavaria
Moldau
Marshal de Bellisle
Prussia
Port News Deal Dec 11 Sailings and Arrivals
Deal Port reports the Scipio and outward-bound ships setting to the Westward. The Terrible and Carcass bombs head for the River. Arrivals include the Medway from Carolina and Westmorland from Leg Horn. Dover Squirrel and other ships sail or arrive. wind N by E.
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Deal
Scipio
Friend
Oporto
Arriv
Medway
Williams
Carolina
Westmorland
Shanks
Leghorn
Rotterdam
Batavias
Dover
Squirrel
Anne
Robertson
Ile of Man
Jane
Broad
Plymouth
Goodwill
Dyer
London
Neptune
Knight
Portsmouth
Chatham
Loyalty
Nicholson
Dublin
Vineyard
Holland
Weymouth
Thomas and Mary
Eumonds
Oporto- Deal
Paris Dispatches on European Movements and Royal Bargains
From Paris dated December 5 the letter reports Marshal de Broglio nearby Strasbourg and to lead French troops into Italy. Archduke Joseph flies to Vienna, Queen to follow. Lichtenstein delivers dispatches, Kevenhuller joins conferences on those dispatches. Rumors tie talks to Bellisle peace propositions and pre winter quarters moves. London sends 150,009 pounds to the Queen. Holland to remit large sums as well. Koch travels from Vienna to Paris for a private commission from the Queen.
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Paris
Marshal de Broglio
Strasbourg
Italy
Prefcourg
Archduke Joseph
Vienna
Prince de Lichtenstein
Count Kevenhuller
Arriv
Prince of Lichtenstein
Marshal de Bellisle
London
Great Britain
Holland
Holland, Which the States General
M. de Koch
Hungarian Majesty and Allied War Rumors
Letters from Prague report the Elector of Bavaria to be crowned King of Bohemia toward month’s end. The Hague extract notes Grand Vizir’s dismissal over Hungary policy. Presbourg may battle French Bavarians and others. 50 gun ship voir launched near Ipswich to Nore. Various local deaths, trials, and trade items fill the rest: a port officer’s fatal fall, inoculation drive in Kent, a notorious house conviction, and excise actions plus maritime shipments and theater notices.
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Glatz
France
Bavaria
Saxony
Duke of Fuscony
Bohemia
Prussia
Marshial
Courten
Leopold of Anhalt
Deffau
Berlin
Prague
Procla'ming
Moravia
Ies
Brussels
Europe
Austria
Great Britain
Holland
Hambourg
Stockholm
Paris
Sweden
Hanover
Hague
Constantinople
Teftedar
Hungary
Porte
Presbourg
Ipweh
Nore
Seaforthwith
Standish
Bridewell
Peckham
Still
Bishopsgate
Dunkirk
Kent
Tenterden
Mary Wallis
Hicks’s
Newgate
Commissioners of Excise
John Vincent
John Thorne
Jamaica
Kitt
Portugal
Madeira
Carolina
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
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Cadiz
Port News
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Indiana
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