Bravery Amid Loss in 1759 Action at Pondicherry
Military dispatch reports heavy British casualties at Pondicherry with 118 killed in action and 263 wounded or missing, including Captains Michie Gore and Lieutenants Bilfoot and Redshaw. Despite fierce enemy resistance, British forces claim bravery and a retreat of the foe. Also notes a village engagement at Wandewath and reinforcements arriving from England.
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Grantham
Pondichery
Michie
Newcastle
Gore
Marines
Redshaw
Bilfott
Tyger
Yarmouth
Elizabeth
Somerset
Cumberland
Andes
Brereton
Wandewath
Conjevera
ANTERBURY RACES 1760 BARBARY DOWNS AND COUNTY STAKES
The 1760 meeting at Barban Downs lists the King's Plate of One Guinea for six year olds and a three heat format. The County Subscription Place of Fifty Pounds and City Plate of Fifty Pounds follow, with entries due July 6 and July 9. Rules reference the Duke of Dorset and royal orders, ages and weights for horses, entry certificates, and penalties for noncompliance. Public breakfasting noted each morning.
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Anterbury
Tuefeay
Barban Downs
Bridge-Hill
Duke of
Dorset
N. B
Heber
Ludlow Races Purse Plates at Ludlow July 16 1760
On Wednesday July 16 a four mile heats purse of fifty pounds for horses never winning a King's Plate. Weights by age eleven stone for six year olds ten stone seven for five year olds. Entrance fees three guineas non subscribers or one guinea subscribers. Certificates and restrictions apply. Brooke Forester and Thomas Jones involved.
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Knuisford
Cheshire
Knutsford Heath
Osyner Hall
George
Knutsford
Grateo
Fosry Smith
Barry
Heber
Ludlow
Shropshire
S.c
Char
Lodon
Brooke Forester
Thomas Jounes
Spain and Russia discuss ports treaty in recent advices
From Naples to Paris and beyond, reports indicate the King of Spain favors concluding a Commerce treaty with Russia for Ports of the Monarchy on the Ocean and in the Mediterranean. Other items note papal provisions for the Chevalier de St George, military movements at Soltikoff’s march, and various European dispatches.
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Naples
Madrid
Spain
Russia
Mediterranean
Rome
Chevalier de St. George
Holy See
Spinelli
Valenti
York
Peterbourgh
Count Soltikoff
Vistula
Berlin
Silesia
Pomerania
Prince Henry
de la Mothe Fouquet
Stutterheim
Colberg
Offtrin
Bruséls
Dunkirk
Cork
Bruffls
Gizfen
Butzbach
Garaman
Eit
Wirtemberg
Paris
M. Mac Carty
Beest
Mastinico
Pavareers
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