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British Fleet Moves for New Trial of Skill at Sea
Reports from Flanders to May 16 describe Admiral Matthews steering a full fleet to the Isles of Hieres for another clash with French and Spanish squadrons off Toulon. A secret British expedition is said to depart fourteen ships of the line. Madrid notes a planned Port Mahon expedition and Venice talks of troops in British pay serving under the King of Sardinia.
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Estaffette
Vade
Matthews
Isles of Hieres
Toulon
Madrid
Port-Mahon
Iit
Dunkirk
Brest
West Indies
Fienna
Republick of
Venice
Great Britain
Sardinia
Hanover
France
Berlin
Earl of Hyndford
William of
Heffe-Casfel
Pyrmont
Charles
Mary of
Morton
Baron Matdefeldt
Moscow
Muttau
Poland
Warsaw
Grodno
Courland
Valerciennes
Fune
Duke d'Harcourt
Sambre
Bavay
Maubeuge
Malplaquet Yedlerdas
London
Lords of the Admiralty
Flanders
Nicholas Wright
Shoreham
Sussex
St. Paul's
Leander
Grosvenor Street
Eaton
Buickinghamshire
Stangate
Lambeth
Surrey
King
Westmintster
John Couraud
Navy
York River
Virginia
America
William Cope Hopton
Frome Canonicorum
Canfrome
Hereford
Richard Holmes
John Boyle Earl of Glasgow
Ottery St. Mary
Devon
Exeter
Gillesham
Countess de Maurepas
Kennington
Leghorn
Salvator
Ventris
Smyrna
Providence
Martin
Cyprus
London Gazette
Whitehall
Ynto
Robert Lambe
Petersborough
John Thomas
Lincoln
Nathaniel Polhill
Burwash
Chapman