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Campaign reports and European dispatches from June to August 1712
The document details engagements near Aronchez and Maubeuge with French and Portuguese forces, including the Marquis de Bay and 600 Grenadiers plus 300 Horse attacking a small town, and a 4 hour assault ending with enemy retreat. It also covers Swedish king’s possible return via Hungary, Polish and Kiev movements, a Majors’ tempest at Quesnoy, and naval actions with Dunkirk plans. Reports from Hamburg, London, and Delft describe quarantines, riots against Jews in Zante, and preparations for amphibious actions and troop deployments across Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aronchez
Campo Major
Garifon
Collonel
Esfremos
Villaviciosa
Borbs
Marquis de Bay
Catalonia
Hamburgh
Ppied
Dresden
Vienna
Sweden
Bender
Hungary
Count Wrasislaw
Breflam
Afungary
Palatin of Kiev
Poland
Pomerania
Marshal de Villar
Garison
Maubeuge
Quefoy
Quesnoy
Duke of Ormonde
Great Britain
Hague
Quernoy
Fage
States General
Groveffein
Gemoe
Vzdo
Barcelona
Palatine of Kiew
Privy Council
London
Béven
Pefson
Zant
Cephalonia
Bristol
Beven
Christendom
France
John Leake
Her
Defney
Kerr
Hill
Dunkirk
Wiliem Lord Cheyne
Newhaven
County of Bucks
Dixey Windsor
Queen's Bench Bar
Westminster
Bewdley
Scotland
Edinburgh
Marshal Deceas