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News from Paris and Madrid on War Councils and Donations
Private letters from Madrid report King Philip held a great council with Lord Lexington present. Carthage city and clergy gave 40 hundred pistoles to the king. Guipulcoa sent 2000. Bilbao 1000. Toledo furnished arms and corn for magazines and troops. Deserters claim 1200 men in a Gironne attack. convoy from Languedoc to Roses carried 150,000 pounds of powder and gear. snow in Grenoble mountain passes buries a battalion. Venitian reports mention Bavarian Electress planning to travel to France, Marlborough expected, and 50,000 Rixdollars sent for troop mounting.
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