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Port Rico and Minorca News From April 1740 Gazette
The Dublin Gazette reports arrivals of British pacquets and warships, a Spanish ship with four companies of soldiers captured by a British frigate and carried to Minorca, and discussions of planned coastal and seaborne force augmentations. It notes Admiral Vernon rumored to have taken Porto Rico, with reactions from Jamaica and New England. Also mentions the Earl of Crawford’s illness, and Holstein contingency refusals.
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Majorca
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the Prince of Hesse
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Vienna
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Porto-Rico
Charles Town
South Carolina
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St Augisin
New England
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Jay
Wwe
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Orces
New-England
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St.Domingo
Porto d' Rico
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