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Plague devastates Algiers. negotiations and trade disrupted
From Algiers the plague has swept through the city for two months, killing nearly four per day and depopulating quarters. The Dey’s palace is infected, forcing the ruler and consuls to abandon the capital. The Kapıcı-Kafban’s mission to secure peace with the King of the Two Sicilies collapses as plague halts diplomacy.
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Prince of
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Wybourg
Finland
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Occason
Abe
Leghorn
Dublin
Gibraltar
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Malta
Barbary
Turin
Princé de Valguarnero
Spain
Corsica
Warsaw
Poniatowski
Palatine I
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Dresden
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A-la-Main
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Versailles
Amsterdam
Messina
Rotterdami
States General
Marquess de St. Gilles
M. van der Meer
Madrid
Naples
King of the Two Sicilies