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News from Europe in September 1744 imperial and naval reports
A long dispatch from The Hague dated Sept 1744 details broad European movements. Dutch privateers captured nine ships laden with naval stores from England at Cape Palos and brought them to Cartagena. Messages from Milan and Vienna describe clerics, regiments, Austrian and Prussian maneuvers, fortresses, sieges, troop movements through Turin, Prague, and Bohemia, plus a treaty memorial from Count Seinsheim inviting the Dutch Republic to join a Francfort alliance to preserve the Holy Roman Empire. The communication includes the French and Swedish diplomatic posts, and the British envoy’s pressure over Hessian contingents and German state alignments amid ongoing war in Italy, Saxony, and the Austrian succession crisis.
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M.d’Auteuil
Cape Palos
S&c
Mediterranean
Carthagena
Turin
Milan
Matthews Arriv
Genoa
Rome
Oneglia
Sardinia
Marseilles
Toulon
Dantzick
Moscow
Carfel
Hesse
Hungary
Great Britain
Prince William
London
Vienna
M.lantzinski
Russia
Dresden
Baden
Breslau
Warwitz
Moravia
Upper Silesia
Niels
Charles of Lorrain
Bohemia
Neubourg
Danube
Brussels
Luxembourg
Hague
Roth Saint
Piedmont
Stura
Ratisbon
Rais
Rothemberg
Matthews
Itaig
Alsace
Brisac
Rothwell
Villingen
Fribourg
Brisgau
Francfort
Prague
Nuremberg
Sweden
Charles the
Germany
Holy Roman Empire
Frederick
Prussia
Brandenbourg
Charles Theodore
Frederick King
Hesle
Westphalia
Cologne
Saxony
Duke of
Bavaria
Liege