Russians Capture Octakow After Crushing Three Day Assault
The narrative details a six in the morning clash as Ruffians assault Octakow, storming gardens and lines, burning the town, and driving Turks behind their palisades. By nightfall enemy resistance collapses. over ten thousand garrison dead or slain, with prize prisoners and a full Russian occupation hailed as a great triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xath
Asoss
Rumiantzoff
Keith
de Biron
Lowendahl
Count de Munich
Prince de Brunswick
Janissaries
Munich
Hussars
de Wildeman
Petersbourg
Octakow
Balhrucrows
Ottoman Empire
Alexander
Cafari
Port News: Several outward-bound ships sail and others prepare to depart
Port News dated Aug 31 notes several outward-bound ships failed to sail while others prepare to depart. Vessels listed include Catherine Farmer and Ward for Dieppe and New York, Prince of Orange for Lifton, Europa from Leghorn, Mary Prutt from Malaga, Success from Petersburgh, John from Madeira, John and Mary from Hamburgh, Oldcastle of Dantzick Domkie from Dantzick, with wind conditions aiding their movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Catherine
Farmer
New York
Chapman
Ward
Diepe
Prince of Orange
Davis
Lifton
Europa
Goffon
Leghorn
E. Gravesend
Arriv
Mary
Prutt
Malaga
Tom
Public notices and society life from a London Gazette fragment
A broad London column records a proposed river navigation project from Paris to Lyons, royal intrigues, robber tales, weddings and social gossip. It notes a Solitaire robber captured near Paris, court appointments, marriages in Devonshire Square and Little Chelsea, ill health of Lady Gainsborough, deaths including Sir Harry Lyddel’s son and Charles Fielding, and a Hampton Court council on Princess Augusta’s titles, plus stock and trade updates and imports from the Streights and abroad.
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Monsieur Penafi
Paris
Lyons
Saone
St. Jean de Lofne
Pats
Dijon
Douche
Pouitty
Darmancon
Yonne
Joiny
France
Ayoo
Count de la Roche-Aymon
Pantin
Turpin
England
Count. de Clermont
Fatxbourg St.’Germain
Prince de Lichtenstein
Vienna
Marquess de Mirepoix
Duke de Levy
Dillon
Scotch Fusiliers
Forbes
Devonshire Square
Cox
White Lion
Whitechapel
van Élegane
Pontack’s
Abchurch Lane
David Fotherby
Little Chelsea
Rose
Thomas Rofe
Chelfea
Bray
Hertfordshire
Harry. Lyddel, Bart
Pax
Morpeth
Peter Delme
Gainsborough
Black Heath
Harris
Mark-Jane
Charles Fielding
Earl of
Princess Augusta
William and Mary Yatcht
Bing
Duke
Dutchess of
Dorfer
Flanders
Islington
Streights
Jamaica
Spain
Opore
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Logdon Bridge
Femperor
Christ's Hopital
Medley-Fiall
Blackwell-Hall
Benyjamin
Tomlinson
Aldgate
Irie
Ghediens
TV Arts
Thomas Parry
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