This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Foreign News From Europe and Asia in August Letters
The Paris Aug 12 dispatches report Ottoman fleet moving from the Malta Channel toward Algiers and Tripoly to aid those places against any Spanish or Dutch actions. Villeroy banished. Berwick likely to succeed as governor. Parma and Tuscany succession unsettled, division of states between Don Carlos and Bavaria. Smirna and Dagestan updates describe rebellions, Persian affairs, and Russian mediation amid tensions. Jamaica, Maryland, and Boston ships report piracy and drift of a pirate captured by Edward Lee. London papers detail a treason arrest and attempted escape by a messenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris A la Main
Paris
Sicily
Malta
Algiers
Tripoly
Marshal de Villeroy
Marshal Duke of
Berwick
Yis
Parma
Tuscany
Don Carlos
Spain
Ferdinand
Bavaria
Smirna
Persia
Constantinople
Sophy
Ispahan
Rusia
Mier-West
Porte
Mier-Weys
Babylon
Horders
Lurky
de Porte
Dagestan
Bey Daoud
Erivas
Cadi
Makatte
Arabia
Felix
Amsterdam Courant
Dantzick
Russia
China
Pardonard
Falmouth
Oldfield