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Campaign News and Royal Illness Report from May Letters
The Queen’s illness delays mourning for the Dauphin. French plans include Siege of Tarragona with 4000 garrison and peasant forces, while Villars and Luxenburg actions and river retrenchments near Arras shape the campaign. Prisoner exchange delayed until campaign end. siege and fleet news from Barcelona and the Ebro. Brussels reports forts near Arras and gunboat salvage actions. Spain notes prisoner exchanges to be executed when generals reach the appointed place.
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D. de Noailles
Duke of Vendome
Gironne
Terragona
Barcelona
Paris
Saragossa
K. Philip
Narbonne
Lyons
Flanders
Chevaliers de Luxenburg
Tournay
Doway
Chevalier de ‘St. George
Brussels
N. S
Arras
Eloy
St. Amand
Spain
Ebro
Antwerp
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