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News from the War Fronts and Court Circles in October 1742
Dispatches describe Austrian movements in Bavaria toward Munich and the Tyrol, with troops marching from Mons and Ostend. Dispatches note Swedish mediation efforts, audiences at Carlton House, and court appointments. Reports from Paris and Hamburg detail famine, sieges, and naval actions, including Captain Peddie’s death and convoy activity near Jamaica and Barbadoes.
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Garrisor
Mons
Price
Ostend
Nieuport
Venlo
Nuremonde
Baron Chandlois
Luxemburg
Count Beaufort
Charléroy
Eir
Lord Stair
Duke of Arrenberg
Hague
Paris
Martha Maillebois
Bohemia
Kensington
M. Wafenberg
Sweden
Rofia
Carlton House
Groffa Tella
Duke of Modera
Prince of Wales
Princess of Wales
Clement Cottre i Dormer
O&ober
Groffa Testa
Duke of
Cone
Ardmagh
Hegh Bunker
Whitehall
Adnouirs
Mathews
Hiexes
Arena
Mfaria Thither
Bristol
Barbadoes
Thomas Robinson
Duke de Noailles
Dunkirk
Austin
Surry
Robert Corbett
Prince ‘of Wales
Carnarvon
Earl of
Hsilifix
Exchequer
Prince Hose
Cornwall
Chatham
la Grangua
Iangie
Regiment of Foot
Biffet’s
McGuire
la Grangue
Marines
India
Savoy
Don Philip
Grenoble
M. Maillebois
Marshal Broglio
M. Beliifle
Grand Duke
France
Francfort
Maillebois
North Carolina
Georg'a
Jamaica
John Peddie