Counts Brown exploits in Italian campaign and allied actions
Guastalla March 29 reports Count Brown with three detachments crossing the Po and repelling a Spanish attack while Count Nadafti defeats Marquess Castellar at Gualtieri. Reinforcements move toward Reggio as Gages plans a decisive Milanese fate. Strasbourg and Hague briefs note fortifications and tax unrest in Amsterdam. Paris colors signal Saxe toward Brussels and the king’s near-term plans.
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Manne&y
Count Brown
Count Gages
Caraffa
Gaultieri
Hufsars
Warafdins
Nadafti
Crostolo
Everal
Marquess de Castellar
Gualtier
Count Nadafti
M. Caraffa
Reggio
Paxma
Palavicini
Italy
Bretlach
Petersbourg
Bértin
Whemithey
Prince Charles
Lobkowitz
Strasbourg
Quelch
Rhine
Hague
Amsterdam
Aoyino Lange
Transport and Camp Preparations Near Bennet's Bridge
Dublin news from April reports the Old Nolt and Blake Privateers sailing from Cork Harbour to sea, while the William and Mary arrived at Belfast after a 16 week passage from Philadelphia. The crew endured heavy weather and had to jettison flax seed flour and lumber. Large camp preparations are under way at Bennet's Bridge with ten companies from each regiment set to march there, while four newly raised companies stay in garrisons.
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Dublin
Bennet’s Bridge
Rebels and Royal Army Movements Linked to Aberdeen News
Edinburgh reports urgent intelligence from Mearns that local carts are ordered for readiness as Royal forces and rebels exchange threats. Claims of marches, plundering by Fleming’s Regiment, and a manifesto against Argyllshire surface, with Romanian? references to fort sieges and privateer landings.
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Otland
Edinburgh
Duke
Aberdeen
Mearns
Fleming
Cameron
Lochiel
Donald
Keppoch
Publisi
Argyllhire
Campbell
Ufuage
Loghaber
Dunkeld
Tay- Bridge
Blairdhar
William
Tof Wich
Coun
Mackay
Daniel
Robere Munro
Publick Sentence Read At Picquets Head
A sentence condemning a Royal Army officer is ordered to be publicly read at the Picquets Head. David Bruce deputy judge advocate is to send a copy to Edinburgh for publication in public papers. Lieutenant Colonel David Cuninghame presides, with D F Advocate and approval by His Royal Highness.
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David Bruce
Royal
Edinburgh
David Cuninghame
D. F
Shipload of arms for rebels sparks British coast alert
Newcastle reports reveal a Scots Papers claim of powder and arms loaded for rebels at Newcastle. Providence of and for Boston is named. voyage details show cargo including cordage guns and glass. Five companies of Lascelles's regiment travel south while reports of French warships near the coast prompt Coast Guard warnings and dispatches to Shields Sunderland and Blyth.
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Newcastle
Stromness
Orkneys
Providence
Boston
Robert Sinclair
Shields
Amsterdam
Madeira Islands
Lascelles
Coventry
Price
Berwick
Holy Island
London
Sunderland
Blythe
Admiralty appoints Capt Peter Dennis to command Windsor
London reports Capt Peter Dennis, formerly of the Folkstone, assigned to His Majesty’s Ship Windsor sixty guns and set to cruise. Election events list Charles Savage as Governor and Benjamin Longnett as Deputy-Governor at the Bank of England. Also noted are selections for directors of the Indian Company and an Excise surveyor appointment, with several gentlemen named among the new and continuing directors.
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London
Admiralty
Peter Dennis
Folkstone
Windsor
Bank of England
Charles Savage
Efy
Benjamin Longnett
Wattnrs
Matthew’ Beachcroft
Renate Jerete
Matthew Raper
Alexander Sheafe
Efys
Thomas Whately
The
Indian Company
Dodding Braddyll
Ke Hope
William Baker
Thomas Rous
William
Wally
Excise
Hutchins
Durieg
Matthew Halcot
Hoe In
Norfolk
Eeez Jones
David
Jones
Merehanty
Newnham
J Jun
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Guastalla
London Gazette
Stockholm
Gottenbourg
Count Gyllenberg
Chancery
Copenhagen
O.S
Denmark
Willemstad
Brabant
Paris
Marshal
Saxe
Brussels
Greffier
M.gilles
France
Slvlvarg
Edward Bella
Bryan Benson
Stamp Brooksbank
Merrick Burrell
Delillers Carbonnel
Richard Chiswell
Thomas Cooke
William Fawkener
James Gaultier
Henry Herring
William Hunt
Benjamin Lethieullier
James Lever
Lenny, Kant
Henry Neale
Theophilus Salway
John South
John Bance
Bartholomew Burton
Janes Eaton
Dodsworth
Robert Marth
Charles Palmer
Ety
James Spilman
Efys James Theobald
John Thompson
Robert Salusbury
Robert Thornton
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Peter Thomas
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