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Port Philip convoy sailings and European war news
March to April reports from Naples Genoa and Paris Gazette detail a convoy from Port Philip with 35 cannons, 4000 cannon balls and 500 barrels of powder sailing for Tuscany. Letters from The Hague and Paris Almanac describe fortified sieges at Porto Hercule and Cambray, troop movements, defeats of French dragoon regiments, and ongoing allied diplomatic talks in Utrecht and The Hague with mentions of the Earl of Strafford and Prince Eugene.
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Genoa
Peterborrough
Turin
Florence
Great Britain
Tuscany
Ailan
Porto-Hercule
Fort Stella
Philip
Piombino
Porto
Boneta
Catalonia
Ncfort
Toulon
Souths Sea
Hague
Cambray
Chateau Cambresis
Down Bouchain
Schelde
Pont
Verdun
Trarbach
Regiment of Dragoons
Alerz
Mentz
Strasburgh
Hunningen
Black Forest
Feipvenan
Miguelets
Lampourdan
Estella
Figueres
Rovfillon
St. Germans
Chaillot
Utrecht
Ccasion
Utreche
Flanders
Prince Eugene