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Port and Armada Preparations Rally Across Cities
Reports from Malaga to Barcelona describe large troop movements and shipbuilding. Corsairs capture an English vessel near Cadix while rearmament continues at Alicant and Barcelona with hundreds of recruits, guns, gabions, and warships readied for uncertain destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaga
Cadix
Streights
Alicant
Cartagena
Denia
Italy
Barcelona
Paris
Amiens
Copenhagen
Norway
Christianstad
Sweden
Hague
Marquis de Prie
Earl of Cadogan
Province
Helland
Cavendish
Dover
Gibraltar
Tetuan
Bashaw
George Bing
Rowley
Biddeford
Port Mahon
Bashaw, &c
Mer
Leghory
Genoa