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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Feb 06, 1776

Page

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Promotion of Flag Officers in His Majesty's Fleet

From the London Gazette dated February 7, promotions are announced for senior naval officers. Sir James Douglas and Lord Edgcumbe are named Vice Admirals White, with several others advanced across White Red and Blue squadrons. Names include Samuel Graves, William Parry, Anstrus Keppel, Amherst, Cumberland, Denis, Buckle, Man, Gayton, Montagu, Harland, Sayer, Vile Howe, Ferrers, Pigot, Shuldham, Vaughan, Lloyd, Daf, Reynolds, Palliser, and more.

James Douglas George Lord Edgcumbe Samuel Graves William W. Parry Anastus Keppel John Ambherst Henry Frederick Duke of Cumberland Peter Denis Mathew Buckle Robert Man Clark Gayton John Montagu Robert Harland James Sayer Rich Lord Vile. Howe Washington Earl Ferrers Hugh Pigot Molineux Shuldham Eee White John Vaughan, Esq John Lloyd Robert Daf John Reynolds Sir Hugh Palliser, Bart

Arrivals at Ports Include Multiple Vessels From Europe

The bulletin lists ships arriving from Georgia Lisbon Waterford London Dublin and other ports. Vessels include Polly Raineir Kirby Hall Fame Blake N.S. del Rosario Uriqui Britannia Georgia Platter Inverness Gillery Beauford Nancy Fly and N.S.D. Antigua with origins such as Lisbon Waterford London Dublin Falmouth and Antigua.

Sh.j.p - News Dear Fes W.S.W Polly Raineir Georgia Kirby-Hall George Porto Portsmouth Little Dick Miller Lisbon Liberty Rebell Waterford Bialaza Fame Blake Gondor St. Sebastian’s N. S. del Rosario Uriqui London Yarmouth Britannia Richardson Dublin Georgia Platter Inglis Inverness M Gillery Beauford Crawford Nancy Burnet File of Man Venice Fly Bale Falmouth Bilbia N.S. D. Antigua Gonfchea

Diatchefs of Gloucester and American war dispatches

In London details from Rome and Secre tary of State suggest royal household witnesses to a birth in Teadoli Palace and orders to speed ordnance to America. Reports from Charles Town describe backcountry conscription, defeats, arms shortages, and growing Loyalist activity as transports reach Bolton and Scilly. Dispatches note ships fitted at Chatham for the North American station and Paris reports on a pygmy nation in Madagascar. Local arrests, accidents, and court news accompany marriages, deaths, and bankruptcies in a broad, period-voice chronicle.

London Rome Diatchefs Gloucester Secretary of State’s Ordnance Scotland America Admiralty Portsmouth Spithead Charles Town South Carolina Polly Georgia Mayr Cunningham Crpdal Bem Spd Lord Cornwallis Bolton Miller Calf Britannia Thames Laird Jane Moran Diana Boyman Botton Scilly Baroyne Rayner Downs Air Gulf of Canfo Elizabeth Russell St. John’s Porster Hull Marblehead Chatham North-American Emerald Caldwell Brune Ferguson Blond Pownal Jamaica Earlden Killingworth-moor Sheerness Proby Buffell Nancy Cunningham North Carolina Betty Higgins Stewart Venus Gowland Cin Christopher Lawson Assops Cork Halifax St. Kitt’s Margate Perth Scandervan Malac Paris Jean Bordeu Marseilles Madagascar M. Commerfon Borden France Thomas Harrison Stephen Theodore Janffen Newriver Lucas King’s Bench Lord Mansfield Rudi Parliament Clerkenwell Bridewell

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