Mails from France and Holland report Polish breach near Porto Neuve
Cracow April 6 the Poles attacked the town in three places between Porto Neuve and Port Casimir. Highlanders breached walls but were repulsed by Saxons. Two detachments entered the ditch before daybreak. 35 Highlanders taken prisoner, two Saxon deaths, many wounded. Polish army remains encamped nearby as authorities fear imperial attack. Milan reports Villars’ troops at Colorno Bozzolo and Cazal-Magiore with Piedmontese forces, ready to oppose Imperialists.
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Porto Neuve
Port Casimir
Lowendail
Milan
Marshal de Villars
Colorno
Bozzolo
Cazal-Magiore
Adda
Italy
Danizick
Aprilzo
Fort Wechselmunde
Stanislaus
France
Cologn
Great Britain
Eugene
Rhine
Amsterdam
Saxony
Germany
Augustus
Dresden
Hanover
Marriage Alliance and Political Moves Across Europe
The States-General respond to the British king on the marriage of the Princess Royal to the Prince of Orange, praising the alliance for Protestant unity and royal consensus. Reports note the Prince and Princess of Orange traveling to Gravesend to depart for Holland, Amelia’s health trip to Bath, and preparations for continued Franco–British-Dutch relations alongside local parliamentary elections and appointments in Jamaica and Ireland.
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Hague
States-General
Great Britain
Prince of Orange
Orange and Nassau
Republick
Covent- Garden
Westmiinster
London
Southampton
Scotland
Windsor
Goodrick
University of Cambridge
Finch
Townshend
Dutchess of Bolton Hoth
Carmarthenshire
Nicholas Williams
Duke of Bolton
Edward Mansell
Bart
Edward
Prince and Princess of Orange
St. James’s
Whitehall
Thames
Lambeth
Gravesend
Holland
Lord Southwell
Amelia
Bath
Friesland
Prince Eugene
Princess Royal
Henry Cunningham
Stirling
Jamaica
Robert Hunter
Col. Hawley
Regiment of Dragoons
Evans’s
Lance
Regiment of
Black Horse
Ireland
Hawkey’s
Cibber
Anne
Richmond
Surrey
James Nelthrope
Lyndford
Norfolk
Election in Great Marlow and Chipping Wicomb Boroughs
London reports yesterday's ejection of Great Marlow candidates Sir Thomas Hobby Edmund Waller and John Croffé with Hobby and Waller opposing the Excise scheme hailed by locals. Henry Waller and Sir Charles Vernon win Chipping Wicomb without opposition. An express from Paris orders Lt Gen Dillon to report to his Rhine regiment, departed for Dover that evening.
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London
Great Marlow
Bucks
Sir Thomas Hobby
Bart
Edmund Waller
John Croffé
Wotton-Baffet
Henry Waller
Lincoln’s Inn
Waller
Charles Vernon
Excise
Chipping Wicomb
Paris
Dillon
Rhine
Dover
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Cracow
Country News
Aylesbury
Alderman Champion Christopher Bowers
John Stanhope
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