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News from the European theater of war and allied advances
The lettered dispatches recount Admiral Baker’s arrival at Barcelona with a corn convoy after capturing a sixty gun French warship, while General Stanhope’s reception at court signals Allied strength. Reports detail the Sardinia expedition’s losses, the Duke of Tursis voyage disruptions, and English captures near Toulon. Continental movements show Marlborough and Savoy forces encamped near Montauban and Lens. Plague fears near Presburg and heavy rains hamper operations as Bethune siege plans proceed.
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Genoa
Spain
Baker
Barcelona
Taranto
Stanhope
Sardinia
Duke of
Tursis
John Norris
Thoulon
Port Mahon
Vienna
N. S
Hungary
Comora
Lezet
Presburg
Tts
Vimy
Fulgio
N.S
Tournay
Duke of Marlborough
Montauban
Telu
Prince of Savoy
Roth
Viery
Arras
Neuveville
Lens
Wailli
St. Martin
Villar Bulin
Vmv
Richt
Lave
Boulonnes
Picardy
M de Villars
D. Luxemburg
Bethune
Earldom of Artois
Morrow
County of Bethune
Drons
Schulemburg
Gyneral Fagel
Wood
Hague
Fuly St. N.S
France
Heinsius
Girtruydenberg