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Distant Ambitions and Global Tidings From An Age Of War
Transatlantic and European news recounts shipments of lead shot and gunpowder to New York, court promotions for Sir Lee and Sir Charles Wager’s return, and Hody's Wadham College exhibitions funded by a late widow. Paris letters report Chauvelin’s removal, shifts in ministerial power, and venereal medicine disputes. Lisbon talks edge toward a peace accord as fleet movements and trade orders roll, with Genoa and Dalmatia preparing fortifications and the pope’s state of health noted amid broader upheavals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-York
Justice Lee
King’s Bench
Hardwicke
Lord Walbot
Great Britain
Charles Wager
Robert Walpole
Dr. Hody
Wadham College
Lis
Regius
Wadham
Paris
M. Chauvelin
Sieur Charbonnier
Portugal
Holland
Cufton House
Dunkirk
Indi
Jomaice
Ty Ab
Halland
Germany
Seeker
Lord Biship
Bristol
Oxford
Nixon
Newgate
Lord Hard
Wicke
House of Peers
St. James’s
Viscourt
Earl of Great
Britains
Earl of
Liecester
Tower
Leicester Fields
Sutton
Guernsey
South Carolina
Johnston
Efe
Florence
Watchtendonk
Grand Duke of Tascany
Vetioth
Wenb
Board of Works
Hamptor-Court
Eaillof Rerborough
Earl of Berkeley
Prince of Wales
House of Commons