Global War News From Europe and Asia in July 1740
Reports from Mitau and Petersbourg describe the election of Wolffenbuttel as Duke of Courland and Swedish envoy Nolcke moving toward Stockholm. Vienna hears of Bavarians and possibly French forces gathering, withPresbourg discussions on Hungary and Prussia. Batavia notes a Chinese-led uprising, amnesty, and appeals for unity in the mountains. Paris outlines large army deployments to Bavaria and Flanders as preparations for campaigns unfold.
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Mittau
Brunswick
Wolfenbuttel
Petersourg
Fune
Baron de Nolcke
Sweden
Stockholm
Finland
Madrid
France
Sardinia
Bublau
Silesia
Breslau
Vienna
Empire
Presbourg
Hungary
Transilvania
Upper Austria
Bavaria
Bohemia
Hanover
Prusia
House of Austria
Prussia
Court of
Prustan
Brutsia
Strehlen
Persous
Francfort
Rhine
Alsace
Moselle
Mentz
Utrecht
Batavia
Council
Aé&1
China
Illage
Toalang
Paris
Lord Tyrawley Arrives in Dublin with Armored Guard
Ireland. Dublin July 14. Lord Tyrawley, His Majesty's Embassador to Portugal, arrived yesterday. He came eleven days ago on the Lifton in the Packet Boat with sixty armed men, landed at Cork, then met the Lynn Man of War, Capt. Philpot, bound for this port. Also arrived Anne and Sarah from London with arms and half pence.
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Ireland
Dublin
Viscount Tyrawley
Portugal
Seft Lifton
Cork
Lynn
Philpot
Anne
Sarah
London
Death of physician Abdias Higgins in Bristol
On the 16th instant Abdias Higgins a physician in Bristol was found dead in his bed. He was advanced in years and renowned for his steady life and courage in times of widespread frenzy and corruption.
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Country News
Bristol
Abdias Higgins
Horace on Helm and Compass in Politics
London commentary compares Horace the Poet and Horace the Statesman on steering a kingdom like a ship. It laments a pilot stuck at the helm for twenty years, with the political compass never fixed. Jamaica letters report treasure from Fort Chagre plunder divided among captors, a boatswain notes his share per man at 551.
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London
Horace
Statesman
Jamaica
Fort Chagre
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The
London Evening-Post
Peter Foourg