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Armada events and privateer actions near Antigua and Quebec
News notes report naval actions around Quebec including the siege, with the Lowestoffe lost and ships burned or driven ashore. General Clive at Bengal defeats Dutch forces. privateering in Antigua, Jamaica, and Barbados, with captures and troop movements. Also mentions experiments in ship rowing, arrivals at St Helena, marriages, deaths, and a street robbery incident in London.
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Ard
Diana
Fuch
England
Murray
Quebec
Point Levi
Deane
Schomberg
Lowestoffe
Pomona
Cape Diamond
Atalanta
Point Au Tremble
Lord Colville
Halifax
Earl of Holderneffe
Spithead
Bencoolen
St. Helena
Bengal
Clive
Batavia
Kingdom of
States-General
Royal George
Bemish
India
General Clive
Hardwick
Sampson
Calcutta
Wilson
China
Mason
Streatham
Guadalupe
Admiral Holmes
Jamaica
Antigua
Crescent
Emerald
Amelia
Tivitoe
Philadelphia
St. Croix
Juliana House
London
Cape Francois
Woolwich
River Thames
Hector
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
Duke of York
Countess of Scarborough
Sandbeck
Doncaster
St. James’s Church
Tower
Wye
George Whitmore
Shackerwell
Isaac Kemp
Strand
Aldgate