Great Fleet Acknowledged Threat to Barbary Coasts
Dublin Gazette reports the King declared the Great Fleet’s aim to retake African coast places formerly belonging to the Crown. Public prayers ordered across capitals and cities for success as strategic mobilizations unfold. Also notes Czarina’s army at ~230,000 with four Inspect Generals and a Scottish officer, James Keish, among them. Dispatches from Bourdeaux describe storm-damaged crops and vines. Paris letters detail parliamentary resignations and court petitions, while Alsace frontier buildup and funding measures are announced.