Campaign News and Neapolitan Dispatches from 18th Century Letters
A British dispatch from Turin in April reports Allied preparations and weather delaying field operations until late April. British bread wagons and hospital transports head toward the Tanaro. France secures Dauphine’s safety with magazines and subsistence, while Pope rumors swirl of Charles III recognition and Inquisition fears. Dutch and German troops gather for Brabant as spies are captured near Mulheim. Counts Zinzendorf and Goes travel toward The Hague, with diplomacy shaping Rhine and Flanders fronts. Naples holds councils on militia pay and outfitting for a projected expedition against Sicily, with the squadron’s movements noted and dignitaries aboard supporting plans.