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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 28, 1744
Page
1
Letters and dispatches recount actions across Austria Spain Naples and France including Croat sieges and cannon captures near Velletri Port a Mile from the fortress, plus Neapolitan aid and Turkish rivalries. Ireland notes Cork deaths and privateer prizes off Ireland with cargoes of rum sugar indigo and cochineal.
News from Scarborough reports Captain Dewsbury and crew aboard the Joseph and Mary, nine keels of Sunderland coal, captured near Amsterdam after an engagement with a twelve gun French privateer. Dewsbury fought bravely, was wounded, ransomed the ship, and survived to reach Dunkirk and Calais Prisons. Separate tale recalls Tilbury and Londoner captured by Spanish privateers, later recaptured, with aid sent to the crew by Limerick citizens.
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