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From Camp of Ondenbosch to Bergen-op-Zoom Siege News
Extract from a Sept 17 1747 officer letter describes the fall of Bergen-op-Zoom to French forces after a storming assault. It notes casualties from the Scorch Brigade and Swiss regiments, questions betrayal, mentions Dutch and German reactions, and reports on Stockholm, Madrid, and Vienna dispatches about European diplomacy and war aims. Historical locust plagues in Transylvania are described, plus royal English measures to curb cattle disease and several local accidents and crimes.
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London
Ondenbosch
N.S
Bergen
Antwerp
Scorch Brigade
Prince Waldeck
Holland
Bergen-op-Zoom
M. van Hoey
France
Council of War
Stockholm
Count Teffin
Madrid
America
Peru
Carthagena
Don Philip
Italy
Savoy
Nice
House of Austria
Europe
Lisbon
Spain
Count Pallavicini
Chiristiani
Corsica
Barcelona
Vienna
Republick of Venice
Sardinia
Germany
Dresden
Berlin
Transylvania
P.S
Warofch
Narraden
Jareck
England
Aylesbury
Rotherhithe
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Middlehurst
Kent
Fry
Hog- Lane
Shoreditch
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Newington
Bergen-op-Zoen
R. Griffiths
Dunciad
Ludgate Street