Privateers battle Caribbean trade and Belleisle siege report
Extract from a Bayonne letter notes 200 hogsheads sugar 400 quintals indigo 112 bales cotton from Jamaica and 1700 hogsheads sugar 2500 quintals coffee 1600 quintals cocoa 40 bales cotton from Guadalupe. Cork voyage reports Racehorse fleet losses and eighty sail convoy. Paris Belleisle journal details April battles with flat bottom boats, 4000 enemy, St Croix and Bigorre units forced retreat.
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Bayonne
Amsterdam
L’ Aurora
Jamaica
le Labours
John de Luz
Guadalupe
Cork
Archibald Williams
Diana
Glasgow
Waterford
Halifax
Bristol
Williams
Newfoundland
Lizard
North America
Portsmouth
Ireland
Lady Clara Magdalena
St. Eustatia
Hope
Prussia
Tartar
General Wolfe
Surman
London
St. Pedro
Arano
Lisbon
Tryall
Placket
Catharine
Limerick
Amherst
Carolina
Jones
Senegal
Edinton
North Carolina
Hazard
Land’s End
Belleifle
Paris
Belleisle
Sauzon
England
Port Andro
Port Lomaria
Port Arzic
Somaria
Lomaria
Kerdonis
M. de St. Croix
Bigorre
Siege and skirmishes near Bordilla in the island narrative
An extended report recounts 17th century coastal warfare with M. de St. Croix defending a citadel against English forces. Descriptions include redoubts, entrenchments, nightly skirmishes, and captures of prisoners. The piece also notes astronomical observations of a Venus satellite and various local happenings in Britain, India, and France.
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Somalia
M. de St. Croix
Halan
M.de St. Croix
Sauzon
Bordilla
Me de la Garrique
Port Louis
Mont. de St. Croix
Regiment of
Nice
Grenadiers
Bigorre
Paris
Caslini
Venus
Mnail
M. Montagne
M.baudouin
Grand Council
Montagne
Royal Academy of Sciences
M. Boudouin
Mr. Short
F.R.S
Philosophical Transactions
France
Society of Agriculture In
Latham Indiaman
Pondicherry
Latham
Morris
Highland Regiment
Coote
Charles Ryder opens merchandise shop at Wheat Sheaf Norris Street
Charles Ryder of Mercer announces from Mr Price's at the Naxep Bar and Woot-Pacx Cheapside that he has opened a shop at the Wheat Sheaf Norris street opposite Panton street St James Hay Market. He offers a complete assortment of mercey goods including silks Stuffs Crapes Bombazeens and a range of ladies and gentlemen apparel. He pledges lowest prices and reasonable rates for requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ryder
Mercer
Mr. Price
Naxep
Cheapside
Norris-street
Panton-street
St. James's
Paving Contract Offer at Portsmouth Yard
Navy Office invites proposals for paving work at Portsmouth Yard. On Tuesday the 6th of next month at twelve o clock noon Commissioner Hughes will be ready to receive proposals from interested parties at his office.
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Navy Office
His Majesty’s Navy
Tusday
Hughes
Majesy
Portsmouth
Navy Officers Proclaim Funds For May 1760 Navy Bills
The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy announce that money and Exchequer Bills are in the hands of the Navy Treasurer to settle bills registered on the Course of the Navy for May 1760. Proprieties or authorized recipients may present them at the Office to be paid.
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Navy
His Majesty
S. Navy
His Majestys Navy
G. Fearn
A. Milne
A Milne
Navy Office Sale of Old Stores at Woolwich Yard
Navy Office issues notice for sale on Thursday the 11th at eleven in the morning of old stores including belt rope cablelaid stays shrouds and rope ends at Woolwich Yard viewing hours till sale. Deposit 25 percent forfeited if not removed within forty days. Also tender for 1950 chaldrons of coal at Prison and Barracks for prisoners of war Sissinghurst Cranbrook Kent with Secretary inquiries.
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Navy
His Majesty’s Navy
Lairy
His
Woolwich
Crown
Fune
Siffinghurst
Cranbrook
Kent
John Cooke
Sifinghurst
Notice of prize payments for Royal Navy prize captures
Officers and Company of the RICH MOND are informed they will receive their shares of prizes for the BRAVO CONTABRO and RE TRAITE. Payments begin at eight o'clock in the morning on the sixth day of June at the Sign of the Lamb, Abchurch Lane, London. A recall will occur for those absent, on the first Wednesday each month for three years at the same location.
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Lochfine
Oxford
Gloucester
Monmouthfhire
Monmouth
Herefirdhire
Hereford
Shropphire
Shrewsbury
King’s Bench
Westminster-ham
Newmarket
Leadenhall Street
Hattendean
Scotland
Morrison
Thomas Denison
Charingcross
Gool
Margaret Kelly
Jeremiah Parker
Gosport
Thomas Diller
Elizabeth Singe
Gospers
Alverstoke
Winchester
Richmond
Abchurch Lane
London
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Sion College
Sc. Ann
Black-friers
Fe’ennight
Wantton
Sutton
Hampshire
John Ray
Oliver Cromwell
Dublin
Beale’s
Battle Bridge
Edward James
Birchin-lane
Cornhill
Royal Exchange
Andrews
London Bridge
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