War News and Military Movements Across Europe
Reports from Holland and London detail a British decree restricting privateers from entering ports and selling prizes unless weather forces entry. Dispatches describe Prussian reinforcements, Austrian fortifications, Bavarian aims against Vienna, Saxon troops in Bohemia, and massing French and Palatine forces with 80,000 men planned for four months.
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England
Spain
Tyrna
Neuperg
Venice
Constantinople
Thomas Kouli Kan
Vienna
Presbourg
Robinson
Silesia
Italy
Bavaria
Austria
Syria
Breslau
Bohemia
Ratisbon
Hungary
Tuscany
France
Duffeldorp
Elector Palatine
Elector of
Sedan
Munster
Cologn
Port News Arrivals and Passages Across Global Ports
Shipping news notes many vessels passing Gravesend and Antigua, including John and Mary from Roan and others from Greenland Jamaica and Virginia. Arrivals at Antigua and Oporto list the Sarah Eliza from London and the Douglas and Britannia from London, with several ships from North Bergen Archangel Gottenburg and Dunkirk.
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Deal
His Majesty
Gravesend
John
Keily
Barbadoes
James
Tatnall
Sea Nymph
Harman
Sheldon
Read
Bonetta
Hammond
Jemima
Stewart
Jamaica
Rogers
Johnson
Maryland
Rapahanock
Wilcocks
Virginia
Anne
Batson
St. Kitt’s
Fame
Frank
Montferrat
Edward Augustus
Thompson
Archangel
St. Anne
Todd
Hopewell
Purnell
North Bergen
Brothers
Wedfidoff
Hope
Netton
Tobias
Elster
Norway
St. Johannis
Hogben
Elizabeth
Fowler
Gottenburg
Dunkirk
Smith
Katherine Agatha
Sparks
Chandos
Griffith
Rotterdam
Fowley
Dantzick
Antigua
Sarah
Eliza
Sacket
London
Oporto
Douglas
Britannia
Proctor
Finlandesque Victory Report from Lacy at Willmanstrand
Courier from Petersbourg on the fifteenth brings news of Russian success against Sweden near Willmanstrand. Lacy’s force repulsed Swedish defenders after a sharp engagement, Willmanstrand fortress taken, Wrangel captured, and hundreds of prisoners plus lost artillery and baggage. Other items mention Bavarian advance into Upper Austria toward Linz and diplomacy between France and Britain with talks of a neutrality convention.
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Baron de Brackel
Berlin
Petersbourg
Ftant
M. S
Finland
Lacy
Willmanstrand
Wrangel
Uxkull
Stoffeln
Albrecht
Munich
N. S
Upper Austria
Lintz
Paris
M. de Buffy
Lord Harrington
Hanover
Great Britain
the Hague
France
War and politics and crime in the British press review
Reported dispatches note Swedish fleet moves to Finland, tolerance edicts for religion in Sweden, and naval reinforcement orders. Also records a Gordon marriage, two executions, robberies in Stepney, ship captures near St Sebastian’s, and late financial market quotations with bond and annuity prices.
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Mediterranean
Haddock
Gibraltar
Cadiz
Dunkeld
Scotland
Duke of Gordon
Catherine Gordon
Earl of Aberdeen
Duke of Athole
Ashford
Kent
Matthias Button
Hackney
Samuel Ball
Stepney
Felows
James Hall
Newgate
Katherine Street
Strand
Shepherds Bush
Streights
Oporto
Portugal
Ireland
West Indies
New York
Dover
Martin
St. Sebastian’s
Greenland
St. Dominique
St. Jean de Lux
Mastin
Sr. Sebastian’s
Carthagena
New Spain
Also Mentioned on This Page
Arriv
Holland
Eifoon
Sweden
Carelfcroon
London Bridge
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Ditto
Everal
Paul’s Court
Wood- Street
James Hopkins
Glombard-Street
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