Europe War Dispatches Sketch 1741 Movements and Battles
A long dispatch from various fronts describes Rince Lobkowitz resuming his march toward Viterbo, Spanish garrisons near Tuscany, and Austrian repositioning to harass the enemy. Reports from Grodno, Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris detail skirmishes, fortifications, sieges, and troop movements across Bohemia, Saxony, and Bavaria with notes on coin fears, militia plans, and governance actions, plus colonial notes from St. Christopher's and Anguilla.
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Rince Lobkowitz
Viterbo
Mbit
Tuscany
Burgetto
Gage
Tiber
Civita Castellana
Frank
Turin
Prince Royal
Demont
Grodno
Wilczewsky
Senate
Verden
Electorate of Hanover
Prince Charles
Tretick
Kolin
Vilotien
Grifbach
Wara Erbharting
Bavaria
Prince of
Saxe Hilbourghausen
Buskhausen
Dé St. Germain
Saltz
Hildbourghausen
Count Dé Rupetmonde
M. Wolff
Berlin
Bohemia
Tégnitz
Charles
Jung-Bunez
Creek Indians resist French pressure in Georgia July 28
Frederica, July 28, reports French efforts to draw Upper and Lower Creek bands into conflict with English traders. The Ufurchee King Tooaraleeche and 20 attendants arrived from the Creek Nation with assurances they rejected French terms and would block passage to the English. Captain Horton, in command for Oglethorpe, supplied arms and powder, while the Creek Navy, about 500 men strong, prepared to oppose their rivals.
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Frederica
Georgia
Tooanahowi
England
Aion
Tooaraleeche
Thei Creek Narion
Carolina
Capt
Horton
Oglethorpe
Port News Briefs from Deal and Surrounding Ports
Port notices report the Chester Princess Mary and Anglesea Men of War remaining at the Downs with bound ships for the River. A Man of War arrived but unnamed, plus Durtley Galley from Gibraltar and Charming Party Staples from Jamaica. Other ships listed: Lyon for Lifton Rysbrack Durnford for Oporto Polly Baigh ton for Madeira Gardner sailed to the Nore. Gravesend and Portsmouth arrivals from Jamaica.
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Deal
Downs
Chester
Princess Mary
Anglesea
Arriv
Durtley
Gibraltar
Staples
Jamaica
Anglesex
Lyon
Munday
Lifton
Rysbrack
Durnford
Oporto
Polly
Baighton
Madeira
Mediterranean
Gardner
Nore
S.S.W. Gravesend
New England Galeley
Austin
St. Kitt’s
Portsmouth
York
Capt
Coates
Plymouth
Lucretia
Read
Amsterdam
Tobias, Schmit
London
Admiralty Orders and Local Notices from the Era
London news covers naval rebuilding orders for the Nonsuch and Seaftaff, a Bristol landwaiter appointment, marriages and deaths in Sussex and Southwark, a royal court action against journeymen and tavern keepers, a 6000 case of tea seized at Gosport, voyage reports from Elmear and Osterifver, a Dover ship readiness forecast, and preliminary Drury Lane playhouse accommodation articles demanding managerial reforms and theater improvements.
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Lords of the Admiralty
Lords of the Treasury
Randal Merrill
Bristol
St. Saviour’s Southwark
Martin
East Grinstead
Sussex
Somerfield
Epsom
Clapham
Rotherhithe
Child
Royal Navy
William
Queen Anne
King’s Beachy
Gosport
London
Elmear
Loftings
England
Osterifver
Norway
Jamaica
Marstrand
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Holland
Flanders
Florence
Brandenbourg
Fribourg
Firancfort
Aulick Council
Munich
Burkhausen
Danube
Pleinting
Swabia
Constance
House of Austria
Black Forest
Bregentz
Paris
Martha
Count Saxe
London Gazette
St. Christopher’s
Anguilla
St. Martin’s
St. Bartholomew’s
Teinitz
Elbe
Teltschitz
Count de Schulembourg
Hague
Wis
Hungary
D M. Damnitz
Mabille Or
Missisippi River
Charles Town
Port News
Drury-Lane Playhouse
Garrick
Clive
Macklin, Cibber, Mills, &c
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