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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19383
Date: 1976 May 06 - 1985 May 02
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
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Folio 172: John Methuen to Sir Charles Hedges. News of Marlborough's great victory...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/19/88
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- 1706 June 25
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Folio 172: John Methuen to Sir Charles Hedges. News of Marlborough's great victory has greatly encouraged King Pedro who has urged the Marquis das Minas to advance on Madrid. Way to Madrid lies invitingly open, but no news received from Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia fronts. His optimistic hopes that Madrid will fall very soon, and Andalusia then declare for Charles III. Has suggested to King Pedro that Portuguese forces in Alentejo should invade Andalusia and join the English in besieging Cadiz. Portuguese unwilling to see Cadiz in English hands and have suggested instead an English landing at Vigo.
Date and place: 1706 June 25 Lisbon.
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal
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