Desperate French Offensive and British Relief Efforts
In the Worwolde region on Nov 8 our forces, including British Grenadiers and Highlanders under Lords Cavendish and Conway, held the line against a French corps, dislodging them from a rear position after heavy snow impeded movement. The Hereditary Prince led a cannonade while our troops, under General Ferdinand, advanced under tough winter conditions and logged notable feats despite fatigue.
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Barchsfeld
Hohenstein
Worwolde
Richerthausen
Eimbeck
Prince Ferdinand
Frederick Cavendish
Scheele
Pinder
Harvey
Dragoon Guards
Douglas
Johnson
Conway
Elliot
Cavendish
Maxwell
Navy stores auction at Portsmouth and tenders for portable broth
The Navy offers unserviceable stores at Portsmouth with viewing hours in the yard until sale day. A 25 percent deposit is required. goods must be paid and removed within forty days or forfeit to the Crown. Also notices sealed tenders for eight months for portable broth bones, via Mr. Young at Ratcliff Croft, with details available from the Sick and Wounded Seamen Office.
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Navy
D.fed
His Majesty’s Navy
Pere Natie
Hughes
Fas Blapejis
Portsmouth
Mr. Young
Ratcliff Croft
Navy Notice on Landing Contrals at Plymouth Yard
Navy Office announces that on a specified day at noon Commissioner Hughes will be available at his office in the royal yard at Plymouth to negotiate terms with parties willing to supply seals and contraband goods, including tallow candles, for December, with details on duties and quantities.
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Navy Office
His Majesty’s Navy
Hughes Wvill
Portmouth
Warned Gentleman Stirring Public Discord at Guildhall
A man seen at Guildhall last Monday is warned to desist from impertinent behavior toward a young lady. The author, a friend of the woman, says he will seek satisfaction if the liberties continue, despite the offender's public advertisements.
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Guildhall
Lectures on Air by Mr Martin at Fleet Street House
Mr Martin will begin lectures this evening at half past six at his Fleet Street house. Topics cover the nature and properties of air, experiments on artificial air, height of the atmosphere, and the construction of barometers thermometers and hygrometers. Instruments offered in one frame priced from 12s 6d to 1 5s. with allowances to merchants for export.
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Martin
Fleettreet
Masters Halt Journeymen Cabinet Makers Meets 1761
At the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand on November 18 1761 a resolution halted journeymen cabinet and chair makers from returning to work unless on usual terms. Masters will treat those who do not return as defying the Privy Council order and facing consequences. At Mr Dunns Academy near Chelsea Hospital young gentlemen are boarded taught liberal arts and mercantile qualifications with daily instruction by Dunn and assistants, no disorderly pupils admitted.
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London
St. James's
Province of Canterbury
Church of Rome
Church of England
Queensferry
Scotland
Wenlock
Shropshire
Bedford
Corfe Castle
Dorsetshire
Eye
Suffolk
Wilton
University of Glasgow
Winchelsea
Lymington
Derby
Northamptonshire
Lyme Regis
Litchfield
Island of
Jersey
Coventry
Dgyer
Kent
Coron
Thetford
Norfolk
Bridport
Tomes
Devonshire
Trinity House
Deptford Strand
Burgh
Forress
Eglin
Forrefs
Prague
Silesia
Saxony
Civie
Henry
Mitchell
Leghorn
St. George
Jones
Margaret
Greck
Port Merchant
Gardner
Ann Galley
Webb
Venus
Edwards Cat
Willis
David Hoopeg
Ramsgate
Bristol
Xbrig
Malaga
Thomas
Dogothy
Moat
Guerir
Knowler
England
Gibraltar
I Lg
Friendship
Wardell
Arundell
Tarriffa
Arnoux
Carter
Payne
Cadiz
Newfoundland
Milagros
Collins
Industry
Burcam
Marblehead
William
Jansen
Hamburgh
Fountain
Hubbard
Concord
Burch
Elizabeth
Sancufen
Lynn
Helvoetfluys
Providence
Grisdall
Narva
Liverpoole
Admiralty
Watson
Mermaid
Peyton
Downs
Spithead
Beachy-head
Dangeness
Edward and
Peter
Edward Roach
Virginia Packet
Alexander Donaldson
Indian Castle
Isaac Oliver
Reynolds
Stephen Munden
Royal Charlotta
Ephraim Woolfe Scipio
Kerr
Honest Endeavour
William Davis
Jan Pitt
John Pitt
Eleanor
Zachary Richards
Fryall
Michael Smith
John and
Ann
John Christian
John Dalton
Dr. Potter
Viscount Bolingbroke
Earl of Northampton
Venice
Justice Bathurst
Justice Clive
Justice Noel
Court of Common Pleas
Westminster
Thomas Lockyer
Plantiff
East India Company
Wiltes
Epping Forest
Essex Hunt
Col. Harvey
Essex Militia
Canterbury
Countess of Berkeley
Robert Nugent
Spring Garden
John Kirk
St Paul’s Churchyard
Jenkinson
Shad Thames
Warren
Beadle
Ss. Martin’s, Ludgate
Creed Lane
Ledbury
Herefordshire
John Brodribb
Worcestershire
Prynne
Ralph Allen
Prior Park
Bath
Dart
Bell
St. Paul’s Church Yard
Kidney
Eastcheap
Crown and Anchor
Strand
S. Dunn
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