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Breda treaty fallout and English trade frictions amid European wars
The London Gazetteer reports that after four years the French delivered the Breda pledge to restore St Christopher's, but destroyed plantations and hampered English trade. It notes French preferences for own ships, high duties on English cloth and goods, and cultural fashion shifts. Dispatches from Madrid, Moscow, and Berlin describe fleets, rearmament, drought, and political maneuvering ahead of the Empire’s elections.
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