Catalogue description Marlborough to [John] Chetwynd [ambassador at Turin]: the importance of supplying powder...

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Details of SP 87/2/298
Reference: SP 87/2/298
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Marlborough to [John] Chetwynd [ambassador at Turin]: the importance of supplying powder and shot for their project [an attack on Toulon]. The fleet will supply powder and shot for their own guns. He must obtain shot of the right calibre and more powder from [in cipher] Genoa and Leghorn. Sir Clowdisley Shovell has joined Admiral Bing. Marlborough supposes the taking of [in cipher] Antibes, Monaco and Villefranche [-sur-Mer] to be essential to the project. Dated at camp at Meldert. ff. 612, 613
Date: 1707 Jun 08
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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