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Stair and [Robert] Trevor to Carteret: news of the defeat of Prince Charles of Lorraine...

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This record is about the Stair and [Robert] Trevor to Carteret: news of the defeat of Prince Charles of Lorraine... dating from 1742 May 24 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Military Expeditions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 87/8/69
Date
1742 May 24
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Stair and [Robert] Trevor to Carteret: news of the defeat of Prince Charles of Lorraine by the king of Prussia at Chotusitz. He encloses an account of the battle from Hanover [SP 87/8/71], with a French translation [SP 87/8/72]. Consequences of the battle. Dated at The Hague. Ps. that they are forwarding dispatches from Lord Hyndford [SP 87/8/73]. Stair's meetings with [Count Otto Christoph von] Podewils and the pensionary. ff. 163-166

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