News from Europe on Aug 6 to Sept 8 in 1700s style reports
Dispatches from Madrid Genoa and Brussels detail shifting alliances and troop movements across Italy and the Low Countries. Austrian Piedmontese and French forces maneuver, with Marquess de las Minas and Count Clermont Gallerande leading. Reports cite sieges planned at Namur and Namur’s bombardment preparations, plus infant Don Philip’s movements and potential recall of Spanish troops.
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Tuscany
Genoa
Marquess de Las Minas
Twico
Madrid
Marquess de Mirepoix
Turin
Italy
Barcelona
Parma
Three Crowns
Tortona
Brown
Nadafti
Mastua
Gavi
Chamberly
Don Philip
St. Pierre d’Arene
Ottagio
Spain
Petersbourg
Peterhoff
Oranienbaum
Bertucheff
Empire
M. D’allion
Baron M
Louvain
Maefe
Neuville
Huy
Lowendahl
Mehaigne
Liege
Navangue 4
Meuse
Vifes
Maa
Limberg
Olne
Enfival
Harze
Charles of Lorrain
Ticht
Brusels
Namur
Prince de Clermont
Count Saxe
M. de Contades
Count de Clermont Gallerande
Teournay
Charleroy
Liege i
Marshal Saxe
Charles
Brospels
Maestricht
Prince Charles
Vifet
Paris
Scotland
Blankenbourg
Ostend
O Sullivan
Hague-Gazette
Marques de Las Minas
Count Gages
Marquess de Castellar
Provence
Sardinia
Hague
Flanders
Blanckenbourg
Chevalier de St. George
Utrecht
Clermont Gallerande
Perlaps
Waffenaer
M. Gilles
Breda
Earl of Sandwich
Stockholm
Sweden
Pomerania
Breslau
Dresden
Vienna
Duchy of Life
Edinburgh Rumor Links Nazon's Dragoons to Irvine
A fragment from Scotland reports a rumor that Nazon's regiment, formerly Gardner's Dragoons, will be stationed at Irvine. The note hints at military movements during a period of uncertainty and includes no further details on dates or command structure.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Nazon
Gardner
Irvine
Aize
Express from York seeks Maltby for High Treason
Scarborough received an Express with a warrant to apprehend Christophier Maltby, barber, by order of judges for High Treason. Reports from Bishop's Auckland and Stockton note horse races won by Oxnard's Bay Mare and Czfar. Privateers captured ships near Dimleton. Moor's Pink seized to Dunkirk. Field Marshal Earl of Stair passed Carlise on way to Scotland. Countess of Stair and Lady Ogilvie expected. William Cuthbert, recorder, died in the Pig-market. Rebels jailed with transportation by lot. incidents of violence at the Castle and escape of Taylor near Kendal.
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Country News
York
Scarborough
Christophier Maltby
Barber
Bishop’s Auckland
Oxnard
Saul
Lisbon
Moor
Capr
Phival
Mr. Moor
Dunkirk
Earl of Stair
Esterday
Countess of Stair
Scotland
William ‘Cuthbert
Elys
Carlil
Col. Gardner
Taylor
Lancashire
Kendal
Namur and the siege amid river convergences described
A historical sketch details Namur at the Sambre and Meuse confluence with strong fortifications, cathedrals and a rich market. It recounts the 1692 siege by Louis XIV with 80,000 troops and Luxembourg, the parley disrupted by a drummer, and William III’s relief attempt with 90,000 men thwarted by terrain and rain.
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Namur
Sambre
Novo Afuro
St. Aubin
Cambray
Our
Louis XIV
Marshal Duke of Luxembourg
Keffftange
William
Passic
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