07 Aug 1742
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Newspaper
Dublin News Letter
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Aug 07, 1742
Page
1
Reports from Bohe mi a detail skirmishes near Festunitz Mold aw and the Prussian formalization of a definitive treaty with Hungary. Dispatches describe Hungarian and Croatian detachments clashing with French and Austrian forces, prisoner counts, and troop movements toward Prague and Bohemia.
Reports from SJE Milan and Genoa July 14 15 describe English Commodore threats to destroy Brindisi port if terms to requisition artillery ships and trains are refused. The Brindisi council rejects demands and prepares militia across Apulia. News also notes Montemar campaigns ending, Portugal king recovering, and neutrals: Venice refuses to block passage while staged campaigns unfold.
Fragmentary letters from Vilna to Hamburg and Copenhagen describe the Russian move on Abo and the Voivodship near Bohemia. Reports from England recount Prague’s assault by storm, Austrian losses, Marshal Broglio's capture, and political tensions over French and Bavarian withdrawal terms. Maritime intel notes Ipswich privateer captures and a grasshopper plague threatening crops in Europe and America.
On June 4 the Rose under Captain Frankland engaged a Spanish Guarda Costa and three prizes. After heavy fighting the Rose captured all three prizes and the Guarda Costa, sending the prizes to windward. Frankland sent the Guarda Costa to England with its captain in custody at Portsmouth. Admiralty ordered a man of war to the Sound and another to sail for Gibraltar and Port Mahon. News from Boston reports officers and men of the Tyger reaching Port Antonio. privateers and captures in Jamaica and St Kitts. The death of the Right Honorable was reported from Flanders.
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