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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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From Brussels, Oct 4: Letters from Westphalia frontiers report unprecedented war preparations since Seven Years' War, including massive provisions buys, magazines at Minden/Ham/Rees, incoming Prussian troops, 40,000-man observation army on full footing to occupy left-bank Rhine states post-French evacuation.
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Letters from the frontiers of Westphalia announce, that since the war of seven years, no one remembers to have seen such formidable preparations for war. The commissaries are making enormous purchases of provisions of all kinds. The principal magazines are established at Minden, Ham, and Rees. Troops are continually arriving not only from the banks of the Weser, but from the interior of Prussia. The Prussian army of observation will be composed of four divisions, each of ten thousand. All the regiments forming this army will be put on the full war establishment. It is still pretended that the Prussian troops will immediately occupy the states of his Prussian majesty, situated on the left bank of the Rhine, which the French troops will evacuate.
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Westphalia
Event Date
October 4
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prussian troops will occupy states on the left bank of the rhine after french evacuation
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Letters from the frontiers of Westphalia announce formidable preparations for war since the Seven Years' War, with commissaries purchasing provisions, magazines at Minden, Ham, and Rees, troops arriving from Weser and Prussia interior, Prussian army of observation of four divisions each of ten thousand on full war establishment.