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War Preparations Deepen Across Frontiers Aboard Europe
From Holland a mail item reports rising alarm over Turkish and Tartarian war prep. Estimates put total Russian forces near two hundred thousand foot, eighty thousand horse, plus one hundred forty thousand Cossacks and Tartars. Dispatches note ongoing diplomacy with Spain and various Baltic fleets, while royal and parliamentary moves unfold in London and Dublin.
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Holland
Wratislaw
Peer the Great
Frath
Dniester
Persia
M. Swaert
Jare
M. Wylde
Baron Olterman
States’ General of the
United Provinces
M. Ofterman
Toulon
Tripoli
Algiers
White Horse
Port Mahon
Cavendish
Gibraltar
Vienna
Luxembourg
Spain
Eugene
Waldegrave
Soiffons
Paris
Bannieres
Madrid
Hanover
Lord Townshend
London
Hetenhaufen
Yisi
Eletorate
Kilmouth
Fuies
King George of
New York
Carolina
Matthew Smith
Amsterdam
Apollo
St. Kits
James Tollins
Pelican
Montrerat
Tarker
Samuel
Boston
George Janverin
Rebecca of
Ditto
Canaries
Hamburgh
Richard Pitcher
Matter
Bev
Arthur Paine
Antigua
Daormuth
Ike
Jaffa
Joan Baflet
Wales