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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 19, 1744

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War News From Across Europe May 12 27 1747

An extensive dispatch details military movements across Europe. Dutch and English troops gather for campaigns in Flanders and the Austrian Netherlands. French and Spanish forces advance toward Oneglia Menin and Tournay. Naval preparations, sieges, and diplomacy unfold with monarchs signaling possible campaigns and subsidies.

Holland Stockholm Dyet Turin Lodkowitz Vienna Paris London Geneva Savoy Mount N Venice Germany Lobkowitz Naples Corcia Benedict St.Angelo Heidelberg Heilbroi Prince Charles of Lorrain Cleves Prussia Berlin Pyrmont Ypres Menin Cronstrom Brakel Prince of Hesse-Philipthal Briffls Anderlecht Afche Herse Grenadiers Regiment of Blues Legonier Honeywood Seiz Espiéres Oudenard Tournay Arche Francfort France Great Britain Electorate of Hanover Hanover Lisle Doway Count de Saxe Warneton Courtray Marshal Noailles M. de le Count de Saxe Amsterdam Oneglia Spain Prince of Flanders Scheld Lys Ghent Pampas Hague Breda Netherlands Nam Ginkel M. Maurepas Toulon Hungary Nice Aqua Dolce Mentz and Cologn Baron Hammerstein Republick Mediterranean Ocean Channel Last India Company

Hound Man of War Captures French Sugar Ship at Newport Prat

In Connaught the Hound Man of War cruising seized a French ship from Martinico carrying 300 tons of sugar and goods and brought her into Newport Prat. Last week Elliot and Dillon seized 36 hogsheads of brandy and a bale of goods from a Dingle smuggler bound from Nantes to the area. The seizure condemns the vessel. Captain Luke Mercer of the Berborough Galley is noted for earlier pursuit years ago.

Ireland Dublin Newport-Prat Connaught Martinico Elliot Evragh Robert Dillon Dingle Kerry Nantz Luke Mercer Berborough

Tide of Flood brings King William's Prize to the Key

Bristol reports public spectacle as the King William's Prize is hauled up to the Key from the road escorted by boats and a French flag struck. Crowds line the shore from Hotwell to the Key while bells salute the city. The Port Mahon man of war returns with the Golden Lion and the 70 gun French ship from Mississippi and Havana to Rochelle. Details describe prizes, specie, and planned privateers amid war news and harbor chatter.

Country News Bristol Bellisle Hungtoad Pal Port-Mahon Millsippi Havanna Rochelle Port-Mahon Firit Carolina England France Leeward Aylmer Matthews Arriv Queen of Hungary Henry Wicke Barbadoes Cape Clear Bilboa Pugh Africa Neptune Martin Kooy Barcelona Gibraltar Amsterdam

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