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Besieging Stralsund and Swedish Pomerania News
From Hamburg to Dublin Gazette August reports weighty siege updates. Trenches opened at Staden with minor losses as garrison dwindles to 1500. Czar rumored to attack Isle of Rugen. fate of Stralsund tied to Pomeranian events. Mezeritz hosts Polish court. Charles XI’s siege plans unfold. News from Tournay details Eugene’s movements, Ghent provisioning, and Doway’s defense. Reports chase French actions at Dunkirk and Doway, with English convoy activity and looming campaigns in Flanders.
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Staden
Pomerania
Rugen
Wich
Stralsund
Swedish Pomerania
Poland
Mezeritz
Tournay
Earl of Albemarle
Paris
Gelderland
Eugene
Ribaucourt
Seclin
Lifle
Lys
Ghent
Sieur Des Roques
Mons
Quesnoy
Doway
Utrecht
France
Great Britain
Whitehall
Duke of Ormond
Chandos
Sas-van-Ghent
Lisle
Dunkirk
Lord Bollingbroke