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1709/04/05

Saturday night came in a Dutch post, and yesterday another, which advise, from Barcelona, of the 2d past, that the troops of the allies in Catalonia will be soon in motion, and king Charles resolved to go in person into the feild, the reinforcements he expects, with those he has already, will make his army [...] »
Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP.  »

1709/03/12

Yesterday’s Dutch post advises, from Genoa, that the duke de Telesa’s secretary was lately hanged and quartered at Barcelona, for corresponding with the duke of Orleans, who gave him a daily pension of 25 pistolls. That general Stanhope was sail’d from Barcelona, with 2 men of war, for Port Mahone, to conferr with admiral Bing, and [...] »
Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP.  »

1709/02/08

From Leghorn, that admiral Whitaker, with 13 English and 3 Dutch men of war, 2 fireships, 3 bomb vessells, &c. arrived there, and were providing things necessary to transport 10,000 men to Barcelona. »
Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP.  »


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