Item
Duplicate of SP 78/278 f.252 [see also SP 78/f.250].
Catalogue reference: SP 78/279/3
Date: 1769 nd
Duplicate of SP 78/278 f.252 [see also SP 78/f.250].
Item
Folio 230: Harcourt to Weymouth. Reports on the messenger sent to Madrid Troops are...
Catalogue reference: SP 78/281/97
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- 1770 Dec 2
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Folio 230: Harcourt to Weymouth. Reports on the messenger sent to Madrid Troops are still moving into Brittany and Normandy. Activity in all the sea-ports. A report speaks of 11,000 men employed in the dockyard at Brest. An embargo on merchant ships. He reports also on Ferrol. Jamaica may be attacked. Ships at Cadiz are already armed. Because of the decline in fisheries in Brittany and fewer ships being employed in Newfoundland, France will find it difficult to man her ships. Many believe that preparations at Cadiz are aimed either at Gibraltar or the West Indies.
Date and place: 1770 Dec 2 Paris.
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