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France and Spain plot on Swiss peace and dynastic moves
In August and September dispatches from Paris, London, and Stockholm outline European maneuvers. Reports describe potential French Spanish alliances with the Pope and Parma to curb the Emperor, plus King Louis XIV’s will to secure the realm and reinforce troops. Swedish and Danish actions, Muscovite pressures, and Baltic shipping shifts color a continent teetering toward broader conflict.
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Great Britain
Marshal de Villars
Huningen
Prince Eugene
Strasburg
Switzerland
France
Spain
Pope
Duke of
Parma
Aly
Sicily
Mantua
Paris
Marshal de Berwick
Barcelona
Pofble
Ates
Turkey
Sweden
Carelscroon
Pomerania
Taris
Marshal de Villeroy
Duke de St. Agnon
Portmouth
Admiral Wager
Canterbury
Mary
Yarmouth
Spithead
London
Horse- Guards
Grenadier-Guards
Greenwich
Grenadier Guards
Jeffery Gilbert
Jobn Wiseman
Richard Cummin
Morgan Owen
William Barret
Robert Smith
Anthony Morgan
Southampton
George Ste Loe
George Goodrick
Chatham
Kent
Isaac Rebow
Nicholas Hunton
Essex
Fiarwich
St. James’s
Plymouth
Finch Dean
York
Earl of Nottingham
Ely
Lord Bolingbroke
Bucklebury
Barkshire
Latt
Col
Godfrey
Board of Green Cloth
Prince of Wales
Beth
Whitebil
Kinsale
Amity
Eda Ward
Swangeys
Limrick
Cork
Nemats
Isabella
Bristol
Haverdegracey
Mary Gally
Lisbom
Sinice
Leverpool
Phenix
Isle of May
James
St. Michael
Lisbon
Fidelity
Ross
Nants
St. John and
Patrick
Penelope
Mary Galley
Barbadoes
King George
Jamaica
Swanzey
Waterford
Biddeford
Milford
Chester
Ifracoom
Ormonde
Dublin
Anne
Dunkirk