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Mail from Holland Reports Far-reaching European Tensions
Madrid Aug 9 dispatches warn of thirty Battalions and forty squadrons moving from inland provinces toward sea coasts to deter English descent. The court orders dispatch to Cadiz to hasten equipment of twelve ships of war. prize ships taken by privateers valued around 500,000 piasters. Reports from Rome and Paris describe papal and royal intrigues, naval deployments, and growing talk of a Franco-British clash, with extensive commentary on peacemaker Fleury and possible war plans.
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Cadiz
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Canary Lands
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Duke of Ormond
Galicia
Gibraltar
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France
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Spain
Portugal
Poland
Two Sicilies
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Venice
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Chevalier de St. George
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Corcia
Paris
Earl of Waldegrave
Britain
Compiegne
Brest
Toulon
Cardinal de ‘Fleury
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