Aftermath of Winterthur and Zurich Campaign Forces Retreat
General Craufurd reports The Archduke's army under Reuss and Hotze attack near Winterthur and advance with precision. Petrarsch's corps retreats after heavy fighting. The right wing under Nanendorff is delayed by a destroyed bridge. Swiss forces under Roverca reach Notre Dame d’Einfidleng with Austrian support.
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Petrarsch
Frauenfeld
Wyll
Pfin
Gra
Archduke
Prince Reuss
Petrarfch
Hotze
Winterthur
Andesingen
Nanendorff
Meffena
Nauendorff
Zurich
Kapersweil
Roverca
Notre Dame d’Einfidleng
Schweiz
General inspection of Volunteer Corps announced in London
A circular from Henry Dundas to London volunteer commanders announces a general inspection of the Volunteer Corps on Friday the 21st at their posts. The note emphasizes loyalty to the King and the Constitution and mentions a forthcoming arrangement for the inspection details to guide corps under command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Dundas
London
Dawniss
Sam, Sr
Henry Bundas
Volunteer Corps
Capture of Spanish Corvette Reported by Kerr in 1799
From the London Gazette a letter from Lord Mark Kerr, captain of HMS Cormorant, to Rear Admiral Duckworth, details the encounter off Colombrettes in March 1799. They pursued a Spanish brig of war El Vincelo, armed with 18 six pounders plus other guns, carrying 144 men, which jettisoned six six pounders during the chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape of Good Hope
Portsmouth
Stuart
Spithead
Minorca
Rochester
Medway
Maidstone
Gravesend
Lafeelies
Prittlewell
Mater
Excise
Avame
Kent
Poultry Compter
The
Admiralty
Mark Robert Kerr
H'S Majesty
Cormorant
Duckworth
ST. Vincent
Colombrettes
W. N.W
Centaur
Chace
Leeward
T. Duckworth
Gc. M.B, Kerr
Admiralty Letters on French Privateers and Captures
Admiralty copies report Captain Twysden of La Revolutionnaire capturing the French brig Le Victoire, 16 nine pounders and 160 men, nine days from Bayonne,未. The vessel pursued a large privateer, and was described as fast and fit for a three month cruise. Henry Curzon aboard Indefatigable also reports capturing the brig Le Venus, with 12 guns and 102 men, nine weeks from Rochefort, after it had seized the Lisbon schooner Clarence and another Lisbon ship bound for Hamburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty Office
Fune
Admiral Kingsmill
Evan Nepean
Cork Harbour
Admiralty
Twysden
la Revolutionnaire
Bayonne
C. T. Twysden
Henry Curzon
Evax Ne
Lisbon
London
Bankrupts List From Bath and Yorks Inns
Bankrupts include J Serace of Bath a shoemaker and grocer with notices dated July 5 6 27 at the Full Moon inn Bath S Williams of Dover grocer June 22 29 July 27 at Guildhall H Edwards of Gravellane London and G Duples of Leeds cloth merchants with June 2 25 26 and July 27 hearings at various innholders houses in Huddersfield Leeds and Middlewich D Middleton of Middlewich Cheshire ale and porter merchant with hearings June 21 26 July 27 at the King's Arms inn Middlewich
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J Serace
Bath
Full Moon
S. Williams
Dover
Guildhall
H. Edwards
Gravellane
London
G. Duples
Leeds
George Townend
Huddersfield
Yorkshire
William Ward
D. Middleton
Middlewich
Cheshire
King’s Arms Inn
Middle~wich
Dividends and accidents at Hereford and Norfolk events
Dividend notices dated June to September list various innkeepers manufacturers and merchants from Slough Manchester London and Cambridgeshire. A Hereford Agricultural Society meeting awarded premiums for stock at the cattle market. A Norfolk Norfolk Hereford and Bromyard incidents record a boat sinking with fourteen aboard, two bodies recovered, ten missing. a pistol accident injures a drummer. a Colchester open boat capsized, three drowned with four survivors.
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Hereford Agricultural Society
Green Dragon
Hereford
Earl of Oxford
Heacham
Norfolk
Pringle
Nile
Sunderland
Lynn Roads
Shettisham
Bromyard
D. Blyth
Colchester
Lieut. Wootton
East Norfolk Grenadiers
John Swain
Colchester Pacquets
Harwich
Colchester Hythe
J. Swain
Also Mentioned on This Page
London Gazette
Earl St. Vincent
K. B
Gibraltar
J. Sayers
Slough
Buckinghamshire
A Palfreyman
Manchester
J Snow
the Strand
G. Lempriere
T. Hill
Surry
Blackfriars Road
Hatter
Wood
Borringdon
Hertfordshire
Smith
G. A. Norden
Cemomile-ftr
Olgreyd
Apothecary
W. Watts
Cherry-garden-ftr
Bermondsey
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