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Allied siege actions near Bethune and Bethune investiture
Reports describe Allied forces advancing toward Bethune with bombardment and trenches opened soon after. Detachments under Dopft Cadogan and Marlborough viewed terrain for siege posting. Reinforcements, artillery, and supplies prepared from Doway and Ghent while French lines hold from Arras to Mireumont. Deserters report infectious disease in Arras and a large garrison at Bethune fortifications.
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Doway
Ghent
Lys
Menin
Sieur Hertel
Ingineer
Monsieur Des Roques
Scarpe
Dopft
Cadogan
Princes of Stvoy
Marlborough
Prince of
Hesse-Caffel
Lens
la Bajffee
Arras
Mireumont
Lisle
Bethune
Garifon
le Baffee
Brussels
Valenciennes
Bavaria
Venice
Compiegne
Eleétor
Marshal de Villars
Verziles
Gertruydenberg
Zinzendorff
Eugene
Picardy
Hussars
Duke of
Duke of Marlborough
Villars
Frague
Mons
Buys
Vanderduffen
France
Congress
Spzit
Spanish West Indies
India
Baltick
Texel
Amsterdan
Thames
Muscovy
Wyburg
Febn Norris
Barcelona
Flanders
Meanny Je Chateau
Dunkirk
Havre de Grace
Great Britain
Hague
Prince Eugene
Tournay
St. Omers
Monsieur Polignac
Mountsbay
Whitehall
Lord Dartmouth
Thomas Sidney
Scroop
Viscount Asm
Charles Cotterel
Clement Cotterel
Hampton Court
George Purchase
Bayliff
Holland
Zinzendorf
Ames Creffer
Hanover
Abraham White
Darby Clark