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French breach of fortress and Quebec notes in wartime dispatch
The item reports French access to a fortress despite commands and hints at further surrenders including Mentz and Ehrenbreistein. It notes Wolfe’s death after Quebec’s fall, British naval activity under Hawke and Brett, and court intrigues about peace talks and royal appointments amid ongoing war in Europe and America.
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Luckner
Mentz
Ehrenbreistein
Britain
France
Paris
M. Bel‘Jeifle
Marchioness
Pompadour
Duke of
Lisbon
Michael Biodetic
Villa
Victofa
Bay of All-Saints
Goa
Hamburg
Landrave
Beffe
Rintelen
Berlin
rafGan
Isis
Dresden
Torgau
Francfort
Cgieilun
Germany
Marzagan
Tercera
Azeytada
Tiffa
Great Poland
Laudon
Poland
Breslau
Saxony
Hague
Whitehall
O&cber
Quebec
Wolfe
Amsterdam
Edward Hawke
Bay
Hervey
M. Bompart
Leeward Islands
Board of Admiralty
Piercy Brett
London
Kent
Hodgson
5Th Regiment of Foot
George Bentinck
Barrington
Sti
King’s) Regiment of Foot
Wolfe’s
Monckton
17Th Regiment of Foot
Forbes’s
George Townshend
Bragg
John Griffin
S6th
James Murray
66Th
Royal American) Regiment
Lord Frederick Cavene
64Th Regiment of Foot
Brig. Townshend
George Gray
67Th Regiment of Foot
Gore
3D.regiment of Foot. Guards
Griffin
James Douglas
Alcide
Col. Hale
Adm
Hawke
Downs
William Henry Lyttelton
South Carolina
Col. Haldane
Jamaica
Ee M. de Montcalm
M. Vaudreuil
Canada
Vaudreuil
Sueir
York
Edward, Thompson,Esq
England
James Lowther
America