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Navy movements and dispatches amid ongoing European tensions
Reports from Portsmouth and Spithead detail ships and officers assigned to the fleet headed for Lisbon, with Admiral Haddock’s squadron and the Dover command, plus new appointments including Sir William Wynne and Harbottle Grimston. Brest intelligence cites large shipbuilding, troop numbers, and expected reinforcements, while French purchases, Baltic and Iberian maneuvers, privateers, and cargo prizes shape a tense Atlantic outlook.
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William Wynne
Samuel Gerrard
Harbottle Grimston
Portsmouth
de Kent
Thomas Durell
Lenox
Coverly Mayne
Admiral Haddock
John Williams
New England
Cork
London
Land’s- End
Mounisbay
Scilly
Lord Gairlies
Scotland
Portsmouth Harbour
Spithead
Ofleem
John Norris
Brest
Mars
Bochford
Tures
Rochford
Thoulon
France
d’Aotin
Royal Dauphin
Lisbon
Bay of Biscay
Ferrolio
Mayne
Orford
Aupertus Fitzroy
Kent
Durell
Bilbea
St. Sebastians
Paris Alamain
Bastia
St. Fiorenzo
Corsica
Calvi
Theodore
England
Germany
Holland
Genoa
Imand
Mala
Daly Ryder
John Strange
Richmond Para
Riga Honoir
Robert Walpole
Hesle
Vietualling
Brtcuit
Princess of Wales
Charles Wager
Lord Harrington
Hanover
Bron
Madrid
Francis Martin de Rer
Porto Bello
Petersburgh
Croufler
Portmahone
Catalonia
Majorca
Haddock
Chaloner Ogle
Gibraltar
Stuart
Ferour
Chatham
Torbay
Parker
Blackstakes
Deira
Duma
Barton
New-England
Cadiz
Teneriff
Dumaresque
Cuba
Roth
Sterling
Highgate
Edwin Belke
Chilham
Almot
Sirohn Gonson
Deane
Rochester
Illiam Tillard
Benjamin Hoare
Henry Newman
Island of
Providence
Charles Hall
Hland
Hague
N.S
Paris
Versailles
Great Britain
Spain
Tay