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The Dutch Crisis and English Remedies in 1702
In frantic dispatches from St. Omer to Ghent, French pressure leads to mass exactions and executions to fill Dutch service quotas. News from Mons and Dunkirk report hangings, beheadings, and mutilations for desertion as Britain notes various privateers, Protestant suspicions, and merchant moves. Abroad, English and Portuguese grammar guides and medical quack cures emerge as public notices mingle with wartime fear and commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghent
St. Omers
Mons
St. Winox
Yuhik
Whedte
Ike Hbery
Holland
London
Cadiz
Devil
Green
Tho. Cook
Tho. Abney
Charles Duncomb
Owen Buckingham
Southwark
City of Westminster