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Gibraltar Relief and Fleet Movements Signal Tense Atlantic News
Reports from Falmouth Plymouth and Deal describe ships arriving from Gibraltar Portsmouth and Lisbon with troops and transports to reinforce the Gibraltar garrison. Letters from Madrid Havana and The Hague discuss marriages, fortifications, sugar indigo and tobacco plantations, naval prizes, and troop reinforcements for South America and Surinam.
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Falmouth
John
Prutt
Bristol
Plymouth
His
Teme‘raire
Portsmouth
America
Minorca
Loestoffe
West Indies
Southampton
Thomas and Jane
Barlow
Raven
Short
Ann
Jordan
Ranger
Thompson
Dorothy
Trotter
Mary
Gibraltar
Bury
King George
Coward
Hamburg
Uftitia
Smith
Longfound
Paterson
Cadiz
Deal
Fily
Charlotte
Hill
Lisbon
Happy Return
Wallis
Oporto
Wind N. E
London
Robert Boyle Walsingham
Thomas Treffry
Fowey
Cornwall
Corporation
Parios
Brightielmstone
Madrid
Vienna
Louisa
Spain
Leopold
Austria
Tuscany
Havannah
Mahone
Lambert
St. Philip’s Castle
Nortwood
Deptford
Greenwich
France
Fugar
Germany
Brest
Toulon
Martinico
St. Wests
Marquis de Fenelon
Hermione
Hague
M. Warder Hop
Bebbe
Surinam