Campaign of Lacy at Baffar Ends with City’s Fall
A detailed dispatch from Peter fourg describes Veldt Marshal Count Lacy’s July operations against Tartars near Baffar. The assault breached walls, Halls, and mosques. 38 mosques and 10,000 houses were plundered and burnt. Cossacks and Calmucks captured prisoners and seized cattle as 70,000 Tartars and Turks regrouped, then retreated after heavy losses.
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Peter Fourg
Crim
Count Lacy
Lacy Arriv
Baffar
Kerafs
Douglas
Van
Baflar
Baffur
Ramajem
Karais
Kolokotzow
Sangurski
Caffa
Lacy
Canton
Vienna
Saave
Saxe Hilbourghausen
Port News Sees No Outward-bound Ships in the Downs
Deal September 5 reports no outward-bound ships passing the Downs. The Antelope sloop Clarke arrived from Cape Verde. The Success Watt sailed to Dublin. Additional arrivals include Brunswick from Petersbourg, Friends Goodwill from Gottenbourg, Concordia Torrison, Friendship Walker from Norway, St Peter Boarce from Royttick, Lady Eliza Barns from Amsterdam, and Anne Burdett from Malaga.
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Deal
Arriv
Clark
Cape de Verds
Watt
Dublin
Gravesend
Brunswick
Ducket
Petersbourg
Sutherland
Gottenbourg
Concordia
Torrison
Friendship
Walker
Norway
St. Peter
Boarce
Royttick
Lady Eliza
Barns
Amsterdam
Anne
Burdett
Malaga
Pamphlet argues taxing ecclesiastical revenues to raise king's revenue
From Naples a pamphlet proposes taking the tenth penny of all church benefices and the fourth penny of clerical personal estates and forcing superfluous church plate to the Mint. Reports from Kaminieck, Rome, and Vienna describe Turko–Christian conflicts, Papal funding, and political pressure.
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Naples
Mafia
Kaminieck
Bessarabia
Niester
Danube
Black Sea
Venice
Senate
Vienna
Rome
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Holy See
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Ufiza
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Ryswick
Count de Cambis
Hartoff
Baron Hartoff
Hanover
Diemar
Prince of Hefse-Caffel
Savoy
William Bridge
St. John Baptist’s College
Oxford
King’s Head
Jonas Mandrell
Board of Admiralty
Hanshaw
Lyme
Phanix
John Clarke
Bennet College
Cambridge
Sunning
Berks
Sarum
Dorothy
Montferrat
James Warfen
Aidland
Seward Islands
Hurst
Chertsea
Streights
Madera
Narva
Riga
Dantzirk
Tetersburgh
Gottenburg
Hamburgh
Ostend
Dunkirk
India
St. Kitt’s
Flanders
Germany
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