Engagement Off Havannah Confounds Spanish Squadrons
Rear-Admiral Knowles reports a night action off the Havannah in October 1748 wherein Captain Holmes of the Lenox, chased by seven Spanish ships, joined Knowles and drove Admiral Reggio from the lane. Fire destroyed the Conquistador, and the action raged near the shore until near break of day with heavy casualties uncertain.
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London Gazette
Admiralty Office
Knowles
Dee
Cornwall
Havannah
Ince
Holmes
Lenox
Jamaica
Gulph
Cuba
Reggio
Canterbury
Strafford
Havandah
Plice
Clark
Brodie
Reggio Invincible
Spinola
Forresdale
Thomas de San Just
Taylor
Dilbury
Powlett
Warwick
Inne
Biddie
Oxford
Toll
Spanish King Grants Don A. Philip a Grand Admiral Title
Foreign Affairs in Madrid reports the King has rewarded the Infant Don A. Philip with the Grand Admiral title and a substantial pension. Vienna notes that council meetings at Schonbrunn discuss a private alliance among Stockholm Berlin the King and Poland. Inquiries were sent to Petersburg via Reuters with preliminary assessments of the proposal.
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Paris A la Main
WN Saxe
Lowendahl
Chambord
la Ferte
Seine
Loire
Bourdeaux
Don Philip
Rennes
Bretagne
Autricourt
Burgundy
Scotland
Genoa
Republick
M. D’ahamada
Duke de Richlieu
Madrid
Don A. Philip
Spain
Vienna
Schonmbrun
Stockholm
Berlin
Berlin, the ‘King and Republitk
Poland
Barbadoes Privateer and shipwreck news from Barbadoes
Letters from Barbadoes report a privateer of twenty two twelve pounders captured near the Mary Galley ship of war with its captain and lieutenant in irons after plundering Dutchmen. Another vessel, Capt Hanbury’s bomb ketch, wrecked near Windward with seven drowned. Mrs Hanbury and child perished, survival amid wreckage recounted. News from New-York notes Spanish privateers entering Brunswick River. Also includes court and royal notices from St James’s with addresses to the king, oaths in the House of Peers, and upcoming performances and appointments.
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Dry
Muffer
Mann
Cape-Fear
Brunswick
Barbadoes
London
Jamaica
Hanbury
Ratan
Edmund Jenkins
Ashire
Devils Point
New-York
Powell
House of Peers
St. James’s
St. Andrew’s
Scotland
Colley Cibber
Maurice.Greene
Temple-Bar
St. James's
Lord Herbert
Viscount Leméter
Lord Monson
Francis Whithead
Southampton
Robert Abdy
Deceas
Che Pad
Sandwich
Holland
Holderness
Vienna
Benjamin Keene
Spain
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Warsaw
Hague
Bergen-op-Zoom
France
Deal
Joln
William
Portsmouth
Lark
Cragie
Boston
Dryden
Knowler
Malaga
Thompson
Cork
Brook
White
Jenny
Sally
Maryland
Liverpool
John
Jones
Bilboa
Friendship
Wilson
Whitehaven
Vane
Morecraft
Leghorn
Jurbutt
Armstrong
Ditto
Warman
Dolphin
Bunker
Foreign Affairs
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