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Troop Embarkation to West Indies and Miscellany News
News from Corke and Waterford report troops ordered to embark for the West Indies, with drafts expected to augment regiments here. Parrots hatchings, Dr Meade’s death, solar eclipse observations, royal visits, coinage notes, and various dispatches from Constantinople Warsaw Hamburg and Paris fill this era’s page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corke
West-Indies
Waterford
Davis
Duolin
Ballintubber
W. Meade
Sur
Halley
Royal Society
London
Venus
Richmond
Constantinople
Prasia
Berlin
Warsaw
Confort
Charles Duke of
Prince of
Anhalt-Cothen
Russia
Petersburgh
Denmark
Anhalt
Deffau
Cesar Hawkins
Crane
Gower
Windsor
Bonar
Master Douglass
Gloucester
Chapel Royal
St. James’s
London Hospital
Merchant-Taylor’s Hall
Duke of Devonshire
Col. Elliot
Windsoe Park
Reginald Graham
46Th Company of Marines
David Scott
168Th Regiment of Foot
36Th Regiment of Foot
Robert Manners
Thomas Shipwell
Excise
Anthony Walker