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Armies Gather as Venetian Dispatches Chronicle Italian Front
From Venice July 3 reports the Imperial artillery with orders to Mantua and talks of a pacification treaty with Persia. Meantime Prince Thomas allegedly besieges Schiras with 50,000 troops, terrorizing the garrison. Turk sultan cited as injured and uncertain over Constantinople. Private letters from Paris suggest Franco imperial tension, Seville pact’s misreadings, and looming general war if Italy destabilizes. Barcelona and Cadiz note ships, fleets, and manpower assembling for Italy, with Jamaica gossip of guarded coasts and plunder by Costa guards. English harbor active, Windsor drills impress the king, and royal progress to Windsor is hinted.
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Italy
Mantua
Constantinople
Persia
Mehemet
Efreff
Prince Thomas
Ipahan
Ispahan
Thomas
Schiras
Georgia
Netherlands
Hague
N. S
Brussels
Vienna
Paris
Cardinal de Fleury
Compiegne
Seville
France
N.S
Don Carlos
Severa
Fraice
Spain
Cadiz
Port St. Mary’s
Barcelona
Alicant
Leopard
Crooke
Lisbon
Levant
Malaga
Jamaica
Guarde Cofa
Carthagena
Guarde Costa’s
South-sea Company
Hannah
Winasor
England
Prince of Wales
Princess Royal
Wingfield Plain
Great Forest
Windsor
Whetham
Lord Mark Kerr
Revein
William and Mary Yatchr
Greenwhich
Earl of Chesterfield