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Spain and France court adverse actions over merchants
London and Dublin dispatches report ongoing European tensions. The French Court pressurizes Madrid to return French merchants’ effects or face reprisal, while Britain mobilizes naval power and arsenals for Gibraltar and the Baltic. Reports from Leipsick, Vienna, and Ratisbon describe armies assembling, and Prince Eugene leading Imperial forces. Jamaica merchants arm privateers against Spain as tensions rise across Europe.
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Paris
Adadrid
Count de Las Torres Mimaself
Southampton
Gibraltar
John Norris
Holland
Vienna
Eugene of Savoy
Mentz
Russia
Czarina
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Electorate of Hanover
William Morgan
Tredagar
Jamaica
Rock of Gibraltar
Will’s Battery
Amsterdam Gazzette
Georges
Lehup
Ratisboc
Europe
Turks
Dublin
John Rogerson
Esgr
Lord Cheif Justice White
Kings
Councellor Marty
Serg
Jocelyn
Francis Stoyt Esgr
Council At Law
Anttrudher
D. of Wharton