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1707/12/30

Genoa, 17 Dec., 9000 Palatines are sailed hence for Barcelona. [...] There is advice, that 17 French men of war were sailed lately from Thoulon, given out to meet the Spanish galleons; but feared to intercept the German troops bound for Barcelona, which place tis believed the French design to beseige, by reason of their making great [...] »
Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP.  »

1707/10/09

On the 9th of October King Charles entered the city in triumph, and was hailed by the inhabitants as their legitimate sovereign, and as their deliverer from the detested yoke of the Bourbons. Every measure was adopted to maintain this conquest, and spread the revolution through the neighbouring kingdoms of Murcia, Valencia, and Aragon. Barcelona [...] »
Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough  »

1707/09/20

From Paris, that the duke of Orleans having forced the earl of Gallway to repasse the mountains, had with 25,000 men invested Lerida, which place is well provided, and has a garison of 4000 men; that the duke of Noailles was to make a diversion towards Girone to favour that seige; and that the forces [...] »
Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP.  »


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