News from Flanders and German Fronts This Month
Sunday letters report Daun marching to join the army in Vienna area with officers summoned. Danube bridge collapse endangers travel as four arches fail and a peasant dies. Dispatches from Magdeburg, Brest, and Paris note troop movements, sieges, shortages, and pursuit of French forces across Bremen to Wesel with Hanoverian forces nearby.
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Daun
Danube
Magdeburgh
Marquis de Frayne
Zerbst
Brest
Paris
Prince de Soubize
Bohemia
England
Cape Breton
London Gazette
Ofnabrug
Bremen
Hoya
Munster
Champagne
M. de St. Germain
Dam
Baffum
Vecht
Prince of
Clermont
Wesel
Diepholiz
Versai
Les
Viamelen
Minden
Ferdinand of
Holstein
Aller
Hidesheim
Henry of
Prussia
Heffen
Wolfenbuttle
Goflar
The Spanish Monarchy and British Privateering Crisis
Frederick reflects on Spain’s decline after Ferdinand and Isabella and the Habsburg succession, detailing misrule, religious extremism, and mass expulsion of Moriscos. He argues Britain must resist Spanish aggression, defends Admiralty judgments in the Antigallican case, and notes Spain’s shift toward alliance with France and Austria while hinting at finance schemes for state needs.
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Spain
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Carlile
Arragon
Ferdinand
Isabella
West Indies
Ferdinand and
House of Burgundy
Austria
Charles the Great
Philip II of
Philip II
Philip III
Whilip TV
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Portugal
France
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Charles II
Duke of Anjou
Great Britain
James I
House of Commons
Admiralty
Court of Admiralty
Corunna
Ita
England
Rigar
National Justice
Madrid
Don Riccardo Wall
Spin
Versailles
Vienna
Rishi
Sweden
Bradles
Count de Mailly
Kothach
Prusrie
Paris
Mont
le Comte de Mailly
Frederick
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