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Catalogue description Marlborough to [John] Chetwynd [ambassador at Turin]: the importance of supplying powder...
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| Reference: | SP 87/2/298 |
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| Description: |
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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