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BG.744.001
3 Jan 1744:11 (1141)
Madrid, Octob. 11. O.S. On the 5th instant the court
received dispatches from the army of the Infant Don Philip,
with the agreeable news that the troops of that Prince had
on the 26th ult. near Tour du Pont attack'd the
entrenchments of the Piedmontese, in which were twenty-four
battalions. That after having obliged the enemy to retreat,
they took possession of these entrenchments, and were
preparing to penetrate further into Piedmont. This news
occasion'd such extraordinary joy, that in order to give
publick marks of it, Te Deum was immediately sung in the
presence of their Majesties and the Royal family: There was
rejoicing at the Palace for three days successively, during
which time there was continual ringing of bells, and in the
evenings bonfires & illuminations. . . [7 lines + 1 para.
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