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News from Europe: Sicily coast action and Messina fort defenses
Reports from Naples and Vienna describe a Turin envoy delivering an order to surrender Syracuse and Messina fortifications. British fleet bombardments near Messina, German and Italian reinforcements reach fortifications, while Count Maffei holds Syracuse and Spaniards disperse a Calabria manifesto amid renewed imperial plans.
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Naples
Turin
Messina
Frieday
Meffina
George “Byng
Werzell
Sicily
Maffei
Syracusa
Cittadel
Fort St Salvador
Calabria
Reggio
Vienna
Gourier
Wallés
Spain
Paffarowitz
Porte
Virmond
Warsaw
Saxby
Poland
Ian
Suesia
Pi Blinister
Great Britain
Hatyer
Alchienburgh
Byng