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Marlborough to Count Wratislaw: the [grand] pensionary has announced the news of...

Catalogue reference: SP 87/2/279

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SP 87/2/279
Date
1707 May 10
Description

Marlborough to Count Wratislaw: the [grand] pensionary has announced the news of the defeat in Spain [Almanza], and a deputation of the states [general] has urged prompt action to save Spain (an invasion of Provence and the Dauphiné instead of the Naples expedition). The Dutch minister [at Vienna] will represent this to the court. He urges Wratislaw to press the emperor [Joseph I] to act [on the Rhine], so that all the burden may not fall here. He leaves next day for the army. Dated at The Hague ff. 570, 571

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Language
French
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