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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 03, 1747
Page
1
Dispatches report M d Alion pushing pacific notes to end the war while Vienna pressures patience. Bergen op Zoom falls to French forces under Dumouriez style victory. Te Deum ordered as celebration. Saxe notes praise for officers and mine warfare prowess amid costly siege.
From Edinburgh Sept 29 a list of casualties after the surrender of Bergen op Zoom in the Dutch service. Majoribanks New Battalion reports 150 private men remaining and killed or wounded officers including Captains Lyon Graham and Gun, Lieutenants Riddel Orrock MacLean CorFan and others, with several missing or captured. Marg rnbank's New Battalion notes 200 private men remaining and multiple wounded or killed among officers, including Lt-Col Gordon said to be killed and Lt Watfen Ensign Bruce killed. Dates given Queenbosch Sept 18.
The Earl of Halifax led governors and subscribers in a procession to All Saints Church for a sermon by Rev Dr BrsHor and an annual report on the infirmary. The accounts show 474 patients cured and 68 greatly relieved since opening on March 29, 1744, illustrating the charity’s long waited impact.
A fragmentary notice notes the Princess of Orange is expected to reside with her family in England until Dutch troubles ease. It asks when the “Hope in Russia” has risen in prior years and whether it precedes the new year or coincides with a grand coup in raising the Sipes, indicating speculative political chatter.
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