Plague among soldiers and Corsican rebels in Genoa area
Reports from May 14 to May 31 describe epidemick illness among King’s Army troops forcing cantonments, French advantages in Upper Montferrat, and Corsican rebels under Matra and Gafforio, with Bastia risings and detachments marching to the mountains as authorities watch for shifts in control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quatardio
Barlignano
Montferat
Leghorn
Sardinia
Marseilles
Alexandretta
Corsica
Constantinople
Francisco Luciani
Philip Sarri
Francis Bozio
Capt
Vicentini
Leonard Giovanni
Major Gentili
Antonio Marengo
Ignatius Roffi
Dominic Ardente
Bastia
Matra
Nebbio
Gafforio
Republick of
Genoa
Corti
Rivarola
San Fiorenzo
Balogna
Calvi
Mari
M. Angiola Spinola
Stockholm
Gustavus
Sweden
Berlin
Great Britain
France
Holland
Collnr
Podewiks
Flanders
House of Austin
Don Philip
Prorogued Parliament Appoints Irish Military Officers
Ireland Dublin May 20 Parliament pro rogued to July 1. Commissions signed naming Woolley and Cae clough as Lieutenants in Folio t's Regiment. Jerom Noble and N Stewell Chudleigh to Ensignships in Bruce Hope and Irwin’s Foot. French to Dragoons. Pretton to Cornet in Bowles’s Dragoons. Ponsonby Moore to Cornet in Molesworth’s Dragoons. Lady Viscountess Skerrin delivered a son. Francis Lucas of Monaghan dies. fortune to nephew Francis Lucas of Grenn on. King’s letter grants charter to Swift Trustees for a Lunatic Hospital.
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Ireland
Dublin
Chitles Woolley
Agmondisham
John Bruce Hope
Regiment of Foot
Stewell Chudleigh
Irwin
Robert
Lodh
Molesworth
Skerrin
Henry Boyle
House of Commons
Drumcondra
Francis Lucas
Monaghan
Grennon
Esg
Jonathan Swift
D.S.P.D
Dispatch from Edinburgh on Scots forces movements and court appointments
May 22 report from Edinburgh outlines Inverness Actotants noting the Duke of Perth and his brother departing by two French ships while Mor'd dor Perth regiments arrive via Highland Roads and Heshians encamp at Burntisland. It cites 24000 Louis d Ors landed by the French, some seized by the Earl of London, and 7600 stands of arms captured near Lochaber. Prince of Hesse arrived at Holyrood. Duke Athol Earl Crawford Casfils present. William Grant advanced to Advocate for Scotland. David Dalrymple chosen Procurator. George Withart named Clerk. Nimmo settled as Presentee at Roberton parish.
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France
Spain
Prussia
House of Austria
Russia
Sweden
Denmark
Great Britain
Holland
Silesia
Feidelburgh
Hambourg
Petersburg
Germany
Travemonde
Lubeck
Holstein
Czarina
Ratisbon
Vienna
M. Greves
Bohemia
Konigsgratz
Glatz
Heilbron
Netherlands
London
Poland
Fraustadt
Universalia
Dresden
Duke of
Weiffenfels
Elector of
Saxony
Copenhagen
Oldenburgh
Delmenhorst
Slerwick
Jutland
Danish
Norway
O. S
Baron Wrangel
Ecklebladt
Palmstierna
Brussels
Antwerp
Scotland
Edinburgh
Inverness
Wasito
Perth
Burntisland
Duke of Perth
Lewis Gordon
Fraserburg
Earl of London
Lochaber
Prince of
Hesse
Holyrood House
Athol
Crawford
Casfils
William Grant
Prestrongrange
Church of Scotland
David Dalrymple
George Withart
William Nimmo
Duke of Douglass
Roberton
Transport Ships at Shields Ready to Sail for Leith
News from Newcastle on May 24 reports all transport ships at Shields bound for Flanders are fully victualed and prepared to sail at the first fair wind for the road of Leith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shields
Flanders
Leith
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Bathiani
Namur
Charleroy
Versailles
Hague
d’Etrees
Louvain
Paris
Meuse
Namnur
Saxe
Brabant
Italy
St. Lazare
Valentia
Brest
Rochelle
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