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Fleets and Transports Reach Port with War Supplies
Dispatches from Ostend and Falmouth recount ships arriving with ammunition and provisions for the Grand Army. Transports from Belgium, including Hill and MacCartney regiments with 400 soldiers, faced losses but crew and stores survived. Enemies attempted action at Lefioghen. fort defenses held as canal floods open renewed supply routes. News from Roufselaer notes Marlborough guarding convoys, with reports of Minorca surrender and a French privateer active near Kriesland.
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Folland
Bueland
Hill and Maccartney
Portsmouth
Newport
Leffinghen
Kokvlier
Lefioghen
Lin
Shen
Erle Beir
Nay
Port Om
Geners
Roufselaer
Duke of Marlborough
Ostend
Armstrong
Oudenburgh
Hazue
Pere Mahon
Isand
Minorca
Minorca Have Submitted To Admiral Leake. Falmouth
Prince of Kriefland