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British letters pace New York talks and Mont Independence siege
A brisk miscellany reports the London dispatches on ongoing embassy discouragements, Congress replies, and military movements from Mont Independence to Ticonderoga. It notes British troops and officers arriving from Philadelphia, naval affairs, and shifts in Nova Scotia governance, with a grim view on prospects for peace and the war’s toll on America.
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Britain
Great Britain
America
Pon Polwarth
Murray
Duke of Athol
Philadelphia
Lowes
Chesapeak Bay
River Delaware
Mont. D’estaign
Lord Flowe
New York
Congress
New-York
Lake Champlon
Viconderoga
Mount Independence
Ticonderoga
Paris
Prussia
Vienna
Moravia
Nova Scotia
England
Samuel Argal
Charles I
France
New England
Germany
St. James’s
Albion
Smith
Glas‘gow
Chevaux De-Frize
London
Greenland
Mediterranean
Spithad
Belborough
Montgomery
Lord North
Hambly
Madras
Rumbold
Elpéter’ Monro
Lafe
Spithead