Bloody battle near Parma leaves many dead and wounded
A private letter from the camp near Parma dated June 30 recounts a ten hour infantry battle at Bronzel Callins. The enemy was forced back under nightfall with upwards of 3000 casualties and many generals wounded or killed. Our losses include numerous officers and soldiers, while the three brigades of Picardy Champagne and the King suffered greatly, yet the army held the field.
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Pahanaes
Parma
Fune
Callins
Bronzel
Merci
Prince of Wirtemberg
Count Palfi
Vinck
Diesbach
Schulenberg
Wachtendonck
de la Tour
Palft
Son
Marshal de Coigny
Duke de Cruilol
Marquess de Lisle
Valence
D’ Olfort
Firmacon
Cadrieux
Savin
Ramy
Prince ‘of Montauban
Guerchois
Contade
Count de Biron
Lavigne
Marquess de Maison
Maillebois
la Tremouille
Cambridge Commencement Grants Five Doctorates and Masters
July 2 report from Cambridge notes four Doctors and seventy five Masters of Arts created at commencement. Doctors named Harris Walker Archer Milner. Also ad eundem admissions for Robinson and Eden. Dover item reports Captain Gunman elected jurat. death of John Lowns at Shepperdswell.
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Country News
Cambridge
Harris
King’s College
Walker
Queen’s
Archer
Sc. John’s
Milner
Christ’s College
Robinson
Merton College
Oxon
Eden
Trhivésfigy College
Che Fane
University of Oxford
Dover
James Gunman
Northumberland
John Lowns
Shepperdswell
Parliament strength and new commissions under Hertford and Northampton
London notes debate the English Parliament strength as 168 or 251, pledge a public list of party loyalties, announce a new Commission of the Peace for Hertford and Northampton, and report Colonel Henry Berkeley kissing the King’s hand to seek health advice from Dr Boerhaave in Leyden.
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London
London Evening-Post
County of
Hertford
Northaimpton
Henry Berkeley
Leydén
Princess of Orange sails and visits Canterbury to Kensington
Reports detail the Princess of Orange sailing from Helvoetsluis on Saturday night and reaching Blackstakes, then progressing to Langan and Canterbury, meeting the mayor and nobles, before arriving at Kensington in good health. The prince accompanies with a 40-strong retinue and 96 horses, with lavish state equipage. Other items note court reception, lace seizure, childbirth rumors, marriages, deaths, and a cricket match at Kennington Common.
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Princess of Orange
Helvoeuluus
Blackstakes
Langan
Lady Herbert
Southwell
Miss Schunn
Canterbury
Kensington
Princess Royal
Margate
Rochester
Prince of Orange
Rhine
Prince
Hague
King’s Bench Bar
Westminster
John Pitt
Henry Obrian
Earl of
Spittlefields
Christ-Church
William Courtenay
John Stafford
Upton Pine
Devon
Henry Northcote
Bart
Peter Sexton
Gray’s Inn
St. Pancras
Lord Delvin
Christopher Morgan
Bradshaw Pearson
Thomas Woollafcote
Franicis Garvan
Alexander Maccartey
Elys
David Duan
Kinsale
Kilmare
James Cavendish
York
Diseases and Casualties This Week Note Figures
Weekly bulletin lists diseases with counts for aged 17 through Stilborn and teething troubles, plus casualties including drownings in the Thames and a well. Burials show totals by sex, with increases and market figures for South Sea stocks and annuities, insurance and bank notes, and several Three Percent and Royal Exchange items.
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Thames
New South Sea
Bank
India
York Buildings
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Agsurance
Welch
Ditto
Blanks
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St. Martin’s Church
Paris
Germany
Italy
John Hales
Woodchurch
Kent
Barr
Count Mercy
George Holiwell
Somerby
Lincoln
Mackrie
Essex
Guildhall
George Mertin
Gloucestershire
Pate
Merlin
Thomas Mayle
Gerrard Conyers
Chamber of London
Cotton
Foot Guards
Newgate
Justice de Veil
Hyde Park
Cadiz
Kennington Common
Surrey
Sevenoaks
S. Nevill
Baily
Ludgate
N.B
Royal Exchange
Craig’s Court
Charing-Cross
Great Britain
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