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Intriguing European Moves and Colonial News Report
News item surveys European tensions with France Prussia and Spain, detailing garrison changes at Dunkirk and Mardyke, coastal fortifications, and suspicions of port repairs. Reports on Berlin troop strength, Dover and Ireland preparations, a French ship demanding ransoms, and parliamentary prorogations. Includes local disasters, a noble marriage, a fatal countess, cannon production, a goldsmith scam, and a horse race wager with freighted prices.
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Cratian
Vienna
France
Courc
Dunkirk
Cercaig
Mardyke
Genoa
Spain
Duke of Lima
Don Carlos
Hague
M. de Ginkel
Berlin
Prussia
Cleves
M. March
Hamburgh