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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19382
Date: 1976 May 06
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
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Folio 294: Vicente de Sousa Coutinho to Marquis of Pombal. Is convinced that the...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/92/69
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- 1776 July 24
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Folio 294: Vicente de Sousa Coutinho to Marquis of Pombal. Is convinced that the French government does not want a war and will prevent the Spaniards from attacking Portugal itself. French government also believes that the Portuguese have a sufficient force in America to repel any Spanish attack there. Pinto de Sousa has written him that `it is the English alone, who, in so critical a moment as the present, can disarm the malice of our enemies.'.
Date and place: 1776 July 24 Paris.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal
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