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War dispatches from Copenhagen to Holstein and Saxon frontiers
News from London Gazette June 23 details Danish forces marching to Holstein and Mecklenbourg to join Saxon and Muscovite troops forming a 60000 strong army by mid next month. Reports say King’s equipage dispatched, with officers ordered to rendezvous. Danish Baron de Lowendal heads for Jutland to Norway, ships failing to meet him, fleet ready to sail on orders. Additional letters note Smigielsky incursions in Lower Poland, with Poles and Cossacks shifting sides and Muscovite forces gaining ground. Royal court news from The Hague and Leghorne report papal deaths, Venetian looting, and naval actions. Windsor elevates Lord Wentworth to Viscount Wentworth and Earl of Stratford.
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Holstein
Thither
Mecklenbourg
Baron de Lowendal
Jutland
Norway
Seestadt
Flaftrandt
Honover
Breslaw
Smiegielsky
Lower
Poland
Pomerania
Belgrade
Temeswar
Dair
Leiden
Venice
Veronese
Mantuan
Piemont
Commachio
Ferrareze
Primato
Moscow
the Reformed
Prince Menzices
Windsor Castle
Thomas Lord Raby
Kingdom of Great Britain
Viscount Wentworth
Wentworth
Woodhouse and
Stainborough
Earl of
Stratford