Finland Raids and Baltic War Updates From Stockholm Dispatch
Pervasive reports describe Lafey penetrating Finland with 200 soldiers and 50 dragoons burning villages and seizing cattle, while Dagestan Highlanders strike back near Georgia. Cossacks under Gefremoff raid Kexholm, taking 76 horses and many people as winter closes in. Stockholm notes supplies and ships returning, new levies forming, and provisioning for spring, with political efforts by Hungary and Bavaria shaping the broader war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laféy
Hussars
Nyfled
Finland
A. Kalashkin
Persia
Shach Nadir
Dagestan
Georgia
Schach
Wybourg
Cronstadt
M. Gefremoff
Kexholm
Stockholm
Tudor
Hanover
Regiment of
Bourbon
Vangedheim
Hungary
Bavaria
Dyet
Poland
Mabucito
Cavan Capture: Three Robbers Seized at Lewis Flood’s Alehouse
Mr Thomas M Dowell seized three men and a young woman at Lewis Flood’s alehouse en route to town on suspicion of robbery. Two men and the woman were tied, a search found pistols under a bed, with cases bearing General Croft and General Cope. The group bragged of force and hinted at further crimes including robbing Longford, Monaghan, and Dublin’s White House. The captives are in gaol, and M Dowell’s courage in the face of armed danger is praised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Cavan
Thomas M'Dowell
Lewis Flood
Croft
Cope
M'Dowell
Francis Flanaghan
Castlepollard
M‘dowell
Fasting Day Reflected On War and Peace in Edinburgh
Edinburgh observers recount a Day of Fasting and Humiliation across Britain and Ireland. Speakers urged not only prayer but action using God given means to end the present calamity. Discussion of Austria noted that royal grandeur and empires have periods, with indolence and corruption cited as precursors to dissolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
Great Britain
Ireland
House of Austria
Spanish Privateer Captures Ship Bound for James River
Williamsburgh reports a Spanish privateer with 56 men captured a vessel bound from London to James River loaded with European goods. The same night the privateer also seized a Plymouth bound ship loaded with goods valued around £1000. Capt Goodman retook the Plymouth ship later, bringing it and ten Spaniards to Hampton. Weather hindered pursuit of the privateer and prize. The ten Spaniards will be held as prisoners of war until exchanged in England.
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Williamsburgh
Virginia
Clack
Dei
Capes
London
James River
Plymouth
Maryland
Sterling
Lynhaven Bay
Goodman
Hampton
Crack
Havannah
Enwand
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The
London Evening Post
Petersbourg
Saxony
Dresden
Bohemia
Lorrain
House of
Juliers
Bergues
Vienna
France
Joseph
Augustus
Charles
Austria
Sweden
Themelves
VaTicrinium Bartannicum
Old Barrish
Aly
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