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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 25, 1776
Page
1
Deputy Lieutenants announce the annual Militia exercise for Leicestershire to begin on the Wednesday next the agth day of May, lasting 28 days. Men must assemble at ten o'clock in the forenoon at Cornwall, Leicester, for the muster.
From the London Gazette May 25 report ships carrying two Hessian regiments arrived at Spithead after leaving Bremerlehe. On May 23 they were at St Helens preparing for immediate departure to North America. Also May 25 news notes Henry Frederick Thynne of Hawnes granted royal license to assume the name Carteret and bear quartered arms with Granville.
London reports that six companies of Burgoyne's light infantry were reviewed in Hyde Park, then ordered for Portsmouth and onward to America. Lord Howe may be near the American coast if winds favor, while sugar colonies face price rises and funding difficulties. Ships bound for North America are fitting out, with privateers repelled by the Charming Nancy, Tyne, from London. Cul loden to serve as a Portsmouth guardship. Resolution and Discovery ready at Deptford for sea and South Seas voyages. The John and Isabella, traveling from London to Dublin, sprang a leak on the 14th.
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