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European Privateering News and Local Notes of 1759
Letters from Lisbon report Admiral de las Torres fleet at Havana in distress with sickness and lost men, Haddock seizes two Dutch ships for Spain. Sally captured then retaken by Phenix, a brigantine from Barbados to Ireland, rare privateering activity near Cadiz. Richmond Green cricket match draws bets. upcoming Anniversary at Oxford. Weekly mortalities steep with 319 deaths and 621 burials, bread prices fixed by Lord Mayor authorities.
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Newgiute
Staffordshire
King-street
Cheapside
Bath- Hull
Robertson
Southwark
Lisbon
Spain
Admiral de Las Tomres
Havanna
Darlo
Exeter
Carolina
Phenix
Fanshaw
Charles Town
Nostra Signora de Matenzeros
Cadiz
Bay of
Lee Fiendino Snow
William Willson
Gambia
Downs
St. Telmo
Amonio Mipgill
Garree
Santa Cruz
Teneriff
Castle- Royal
Dunkirk
N.S
Chevalier Barr
Havre-de-Grace
Artillery Ground
Moorfields
King’s Head
Oxford
Buria