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Army and foreign dispatches amid European hostilities 1742
Unknown General Grovefein secures booty and 320 hostages amid French sieges while European powers coordinate troop movements and demands for contributions. Messages report battles, parlamentar votes, forages between Valenciennes and Conde, and a contingent of English troops marching to Dunkirk. Communications from Utrecht Luxemburg and Genoa detail casualties, plunder, and treaty hopes as princes and ministers negotiate with the Emperor and Swiss regiments bound for Flanders. Letters note floods near Toulouse, births and deaths, and ongoing political measures in Britain including oaths for ministers in Scotland and debts for the army and navy.
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Grovefein
Maefe
Mofeile
Morbdach
Rhine
Iouzgy
P. Eugene
Zonrendorf
Duke of Ormonde
Cairnp
Dunkir
Eugene
France
Semet
Utrecht
Bithor
Bristol
England
Messieurs Buys
Vanderduilen
Luxemburg
Grovettein
Traerbach
Council of State
Tis
Valenciennes
Conde
Count de Zinzendorf
Baron de Hohenuorf
Luneville
Gravestein
Metz
Champaign
M.de Labadie
Vienna
Adam of
Lichenstein
Presburg
Switferland
Netherlands
Sweden
Bender
Silvia
Genoa
Vado
Barcelona
Thoulouse
Montaban
Duke of Bourbon
Plymouth
Medway
Dover
Margates Bay
London
Scotland
Reneris
Bayly
Sathai
Howe Co
Great Britain
Hanover
House of Hanover
D. Jovis
St. Yohn
Britain
Cromn