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Comet Updates and Wartime Dispatches from 1748
The letter notes a third magnitude comet near Cepheus with position estimates for the night of April 28 as it moves toward the North Pole area. It includes a gritty Bristol to London report from a Swiss officer wounded in action, describing trench assaults and hospital scenes, plus Bristol and St Kitts intelligence on Commodore Pocock’s blockade of Martinique, Dutch-French skirmishes, privateering, stock market bullets, and naval movements across April 26 to 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albinus
P. Knapton
Ludgate-street
John Earl Granville
John Taylor
Lincoln
St. Fabun’s College
Cambridge
C. Bathurst
St. Dunstan’s Church
Fleet-street
Echines
Demosthenes
Ottava
University Press
S. Sanger
Azeff- Mann
Ayscough
Pegasus
Andromeda
Cepheus
Brest
Caropea
Maastricht
London
Bristol
St. Kitt’s
West Indies
Pocock
Martinico
East Indies
St. Kit’s
Europe
Carafoa