Peter the Great and Russian Military Reforms
The author extols Peter the Great for modernizing Russia by sending nobles abroad to learn arts, sciences, and naval warfare, and by employing foreign officers to reform discipline. He praises General Gordon and Count Larci, notes Irish and German officers' roles, and critiques a Swedish letter as misinforming about Sweden’s alliance with Turks. The piece urges Britons to study Russia’s military rise and respond to the shifting balance of power in Europe.
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Peter ‘I. Czar
Russia
England
Blackmore
Peter the Great
Peter
Hns
Holland
Saardam
Amsterdam
Sweden
Pultowa
Lerave
Gordon
Britain
Rufsia
Count Munich
Count Larois
Marshal Lard
France
Stanislaus
Paris
Larci
Ireland
Hugh de Lacy
Ufe
Duke of Berwick
Foote
Sveral
Munich
Spain
Oran
Asaph
Funk
Constantinople
M. Palmquist
Hague
Voltaire
Charles the Twelfth
M. Funk
M. Voltaire
Czarina
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Precop
Christendom
Philatrakicus
Daily Journal
Empress orders 40,000 Calmucks and 10,000 Cossacks to Crimea
Late letters from Holland report Empress's two grand garden entertainments in honor of Asaph. She dispatches Veldt-Marshal Count de Larci with 40,000 Calmucks and 10,000 Don Cossacks to join Count Munich, forming a force poised for the Crimean campaign. Each Calmuck bears four horses and a camel for every seven men. The Countess de Munich travels to Crimea as the Empress awards her fine clothes and a diamond scuff-box, promising reward for service.
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Asaph
Count de Larci
Count Munich
Crim
Calmuck
Countess de Munich
Port News Brief from Weymouth to Portland Road
PORT NEWS. Weymouth, Fuly 28. This Morning came to an An chor in Portland Road, the Lucy, White, for Mars seilles, and the Elvett Catherine, Sieron, for Fal mouth. Deal, Fuly 29. Came down Yesterday, and this Morning fail'd thro', a Ship for New York and one for Cadiz, Names unknown. Arriv'd the Drummer, and the Elizabeth, Wolf, both from Guinea. Wind S. W.
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Weymouth
Fuly
Portland Road
Lucy
White
Marsseilles
Elvett Catherine
Sieron
Falmouth
Deal
New York
Cadiz
Arriv
Drummer
Elizabeth
Wolf
Guinea
Wind S. W
Frontiers of Hungary News Mention Turkish Troop Counts
London Vienna reports explain why Emperor sent troops into Hungary after peace with France. Letters from Leghorn note Spanish reinforcements to Corsica and Bastia sallies driving attackers from ports. Paris-C Madrid dispatches discuss Catalonia armament amid Tuscany Evacuation doubts. Obits include David Pouchoud and Henry Sumner Ely. Funeral of Mrs Jane Chester noted with marching cortège. Arrival of Archer MP’s wife’s son reported. Dogger’s Coat and Badge race planned August 1 from Old Swan Stairs to Chelsea.
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Vienna
N.S
Hungary
France
Leghorn
Corsica
Genezfc
Bastia
Paris
Compiegne
Madrid
Catalonia
Tuscany
Utrecht
David Pouchoud
Castleyard
Holbourn
Henry Sumner
Ely
County of Bucks
St. Mary Hall
Oxford
William the Third