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PG-P.744.009
16 Feb 1744:12,13 (792)
An extract of a letter from an English gentleman in Prince
Charles's Army, to a friend in London. . . [35 lines; with
troops commanded by Baron Trenk and General Connigseg, meet
and defeat a French company.] I believe Trenk had a mind to
spare his Pandours, and the General his grenadiers; but
whilst these gentlemen were deliberating, the French took
the alarm; the Fort Mortier, on the banks of the Rhine, and
under whose cannon we had passed unobserved, began now to
fire at us, and we very plainly heard their troops on their
march from New Brisac, about half a mile from the canal,
their drums beating, and their trumpets sounding: . . .
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