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Dettingen Victory Report Amidst Heavy Losses Across Europe
An American letter details a six hour battle at Dettingen where French forces were repulsed after crossing the Main at Dettingen. Casualties include General Clayton Major Honeywood and Colonel Ligonier wounded, Duke d Aremberg and others among the wounded, with captures of two generals and two cannons. News from Philadelphia and Boston covers naturalizations, privateer actions and prize captures, plus ship arrivals and a brutal stagecoach robbery in Oxfordshire.
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Hane
Aschaffenburgh
Dettingen
Clayton
Honeywood
Duke of Cumberland
Briginal Huke
Ligonier
Blas Horse Guards
Hawley
Bland
Mons'de Fenelon
Wabred
Marshil
Noailles
Albermate
Horfe
Cers
Campbell
Aremberg
Albermarle
Phil. Honeywood
New-York
Launceston
Warren
Jameses
Antigua
East India Company
Bermingham
Banbury
Onxfordshire
Lansbury
Oxford
Pardoe
Jesus Colledge
Col
Pierce
d’Aremberg
Ranby
Achaffenberg
Hanover Square
Walker
Wynne
Rowland Wynne, Bart
Foot Guards
Boscawen
Germany
John Stanley
Earl of Derby
Liverpool
George Maling
Seiz
aVessel
Maling
Chelsea
Fulham
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