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Campaign reports and troop movements near Lisle and Doway
From the Lisle Confederate Camp and surrounding lines theAug 10 dispatches describe General Gravestein reinforcing Bouchain while French forces attack at Sommain and Vitry. News items list prisoners and returns, English battalions arriving at Dunkirk, and marching orders as Prince Eugene advances. Reports from Flanders and Brussels note sieges, bombardments, and shifting positions around Doway Belleforiere and the Deule with expected congresses and peace talks looming.
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Lys
Bruges
Waes
Lisle
Gravestein
Bouchain
Sommain
Vitry
Denain
Albemarles
Prince Charles’s
Spaens
C. la Lippe
Teuconick
Baden’s
Hagenbachs
Teibachs
Efferen
Coe
Saltsbachs
Ts V
Douglas
Reed
Ipses
Duc
Duke of Ormonde
Dunkirk
England
Eugene
Prince of Holtein Beck
Eugne
Stven
Doway
Seclin
Scarp
Deule
Carvin
Flines
Rache
Menin
Tournay
Rhibancour
Naa Vhamouule Haine
Duce
Flanders
Belletoriere
Ponce Ruby
Prussia
Hanover
Utrecht
Earl of Streod
Creche
France
Agnis
Linden
Mannerspis
Dublin
Dram Lily
Switz
Baris
Garifong
Amsterdam
M. Villars
Brusels
Prince Eugene
Marshal de Montesquoy
Valenciennes
Forte Scarpe
Bulinbrook
Prior
Treesurer
South Sea Company
James Bateman
Ambrose Crawley
Powter St. John
Edwards
Deceas
Earl of Winchelsea
Heneage Finch
James Gunter Hy
Monmouth
Ditto
Steden
Hovendorte
Stetin
G.n. Gravenstein
Pont A Roche
Hague
Tts
Belleforiere
Scotland
Matham
Fowley
Freeman
Diet
Loyd
Pooley
Sceele