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PG-P.744.002
19 Jan 1744:22 (788)
Madrid, October 11. O.S. On the 5th instant the court
received dispatches from the army of the Infant Don Philip,
with the agreable 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 battallions:
that after having obliged the enemy to retreat, they took
possession of those 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 evening bonfires
and illuminations. . .
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