Continental War News From July to August
The letters detail a Dutch report of a sixty gun man of war being built at Havana with Admiral Torres to sail with twelve ships. French and allied forces engage Piedmont fronts. the British army advances toward Barricades and Sambuco. Prussia, Sweden, and Saxon allies move troops across Konigsberg, Magdeburg, and Berlin regions for forthcoming operations near Haguenau and Strasbourg.
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Havannah
Torres
Rome
Lon de Camp
Brezes
Piédmont
Baily de Givsy
Piedmont
Sambuco
Vienna
Dohna
Silesia
Hambourg
Lef
Stockholm
Keith
Revel
Magdebourg
Berlin
Wessels
Elb
Earl of
Hanover
Great Britain
England
Germany
Amsterdam
Konigberg
Prussia
Mariembourg
Konigserg
Eling
Paris
Count Maurepas
Dunkirk
Sedan
Flanders
Frandtort
Fort Louis
Strasbourg
de Rohan
Farthett
Petechem
Schel
Lys
Ghent
Brussels
Schela
Maubeuge
Duke of
Aremberg
Saxe
Haguenau
Charles
Drufenheim
Deal Port News and Naval Movements
July 27 28 reports arrival of several Royal Navy ships including the Scarborough Hospital Ship and Dreadnought with outward-bound units. Vessels Wolf Harwich Grampus and ships Winchester Lenox remain. Dreadnought Shoreham Hind and Dover men of war despatch westward. Atlantic arrivals note Britannia Launceston St Andrew from New York and Virginia Maryland Jamaica ports with Antigua London Philadelphia.
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Deal
Hawk
Scarborough
Shoreham
Clements
Lisbon
Wind S. W. Deal
Cruize
Dover
Hind
Wolf Stoops
Britannia
Griffith
New York
St. Andrew
Christianian
Norway
Launceston
Capt
Warren
Antigua
Virginia
Albemarle
Addison
Expedition
Ellis
Essex
Hunter
London
Maryland
Catharine
Earle
Jamaica
Greyhound
Wood
Vernon
Burroughs
Philadelphia
Embassy baggage to Venice voyage via Mary Natt and convoy
The Earl of Holderness is sending his embassy to Venice with his Excellency and family aboard the Mary Natt under convoy by two warships. They travel overland to Venice, a journey of about 700 miles, after leaving the Prince William sloop. Also noted is a Wolverhampton marriage and other financial notices including South Sea stock and bank terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Holderness
Repub‘Hick
Venice
William Blynes
Ancram
Mary Natt
Cape
William Betas
Hotland
Balfon
Ison
Wolverhampton
Stafordshire
St. George’s
Radcliff Highway
Saunders
Dr. Saunders
Gravesend
Isaac Nettleford
Maidstone
Kent
Anne
Notable Obituaries and Naval Notices in Surrey and Sussex
A collection of brief obituaries and official notices from Surrey and Sussex towns. Items include the deaths of Mr. Thomas Collison the Bermondsey brewer and a Surrey farmer with many children, the appointment of Rev Edward Charlton as preacher at Chester Cathedral, and multiple Assizes and piracy-related updates from Horsham, Croydon, and Tilbury. Also noted are naval actions in the Downs and Brest engagements, Lane privateers, and appointments in the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, with British and Dutch naval movements from Spithead to St Helens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bond-Streat
Grosvenor-Square
Croydon
Surrey
Thomas Collison
Bermondsey Street
Southwark
Rygate
Smith
Pott
Hastings
England
Willes
Baron Reynolds
King
Rood
Downs
Ea Palme
Newart
Dover
Grosvenor
Havre
de Grace
Viver
Grofvener
Hay of
Biscay
Brest
Legrase
Scilly
Newfoundland
France
Codfith
Bourdeaux
Oliver Cromwell
Holden
Woolwich
Lynn
Norfolk
London Gazette
Whitehall
Rowland Reynolds
Efy
Robert Carpenter
James Stuart
Charles, Buchan
Earl of Dumfries
Foot-Guards
Admiralty Office
John Batchen
Spithead
St.Helem’s
Bankruptcy notices names of insolvent traders
Bankrupts. John Winchester of Slington Middlesex vintner innholder and chapman John Crutcher the Younger of Queen Street London Taylor and chapman William Saunders now Tate of Brick Lane Middlesex Hester John Shipton late of the Strand in the Parish of Br martin in the Fields Middlesex mai
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Winchester
Slington
Middlesex
Chapman
John Crutcher the Younger
London Bridge Water Event At Five In Afternoon
A note reports high water at London Bridge reaching near five o clock in the afternoon. The brief highlights a dangerous condition and urges caution for travelers near the river.
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London Bridge
Saber
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Holland
Madrid
South
South Sea Run
Baik
India
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