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Privateers and Fleet Movements Amid European Conflicts
News from London reports Privateers of Zealand capturing eleven French merchantmen on a West Indies run, while European dispatches cite Swedish Muscovite battles with high casualties and Danish-Portuguese naval activity. Projections place West Marshal d Auverquerque en route from Brussels, Dunkirk preparations pressuring his timetable, and the States ready to sail with 12 warships. Paris letters describe Prince of Wales preparing to campaign under Vendôme in Flanders, with a Dunkirk armament and a possible descent on Scotland. Admiral Sir George Byng’s fleet nears Flemish shores to watch French moves as 32 Flemish ships lie in the road, while privateers operate and a Venice-bound Prigg prize is reported.
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Zealand
Otter Cape
West Indies
Amterdam
Koningsberg
D. Auverquerque
Brussels
Dunkirk
Cadiz
Madrid
Grenoble
Duke of Savoy
Switferland
Prince of Wales
Duke of Vendome
Cevennes
Flanders
Paris
Sth
Wale
Trim
Scotland
London
Expres
Sir George Bing
Flemish Roads
Mall
Great
Fiherman
Brest
Grayling
Roe-Buck
Queenborough
Glascow
Squirrel
Downs
George Bing
Prigg the Gulph
Venice