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Ships of War sail for Gibraltar and Channel patrols
Major General Hargrove and officers depart for Portsmouth to embark on royal ships for Gibraltar and Port Mahon. Bombardiers test great guns at Woolwich as Dunkirk sails to guard the Channel, and the Suffolk and Prince Edward prepare rigging. News arrives of Porto Bello victory, fires light across towns, and society reacts with bonfires and celebrations.
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Hargrove
Gibraltar
Portsmouth
Portmahone
Ordnance Office
Woolwich
Dunkirk
Suffolk
Prince Broderick
South Sea Company
Snow
Stephens
Buenos Ayres
Great Britain
Spain
Old
Prince of Orange’s
Porto Bello
Beatone
Charlotte Hyde
Earl
Clarendon and
Rochester
Jecafslem
Henry the Seventh
Westminster Abbey
Gray’s Inn
Jamaica
Humphrey
Wright
Admiral Vernon
the Common Pleas
Seynor Birch
John Idle
Exchequer
Baron Parkes
Thomas Boottle
Pringeé Wales
Paris
Spezzia
Kensington Palace
Prince de Lichtstein
Maurepas
Thalimof
Christian M.jetty
Amsterdam
France