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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Captain Burroughs reports from Cadiz, left on March 2, that the city is secure with a large garrison of English, Portuguese, and Spanish troops, naval defenses including Spanish, Portuguese, and British ships, six months' provisions, new water supplies, a retaken British fort, and Spanish threats to destroy prison ships if French force Spanish prisoners to work exposed.
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Capt. Burroughs has arrived in New-York from Cadiz, which he left the 2d March. He informs that Cadiz was considered safe for the present, that numbers who had put their property on shipboard, on the first approach of the French, had re-landed it;—That the garrison of the island consisted of 4500 English, 1500 Portuguese, and 27,000 Spaniards; with a naval defense of seven Spanish, and one Portuguese ships of the line, beside British men of war.—That the city had a supply of provisions for six months: and that springs had been discovered, by digging, which afforded a plentiful supply of water:—That the British had retaken and held a fort on the opposite shore; and that the Spaniards had threatened to blow up their prison ships, crowded with French prisoners, if the French persisted in compelling Spanish prisoners to work in exposed situations on the fortifications.
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Cadiz
Event Date
2d March
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cadiz considered safe; british retaken and held fort on opposite shore; spaniards threatened to blow up prison ships with french prisoners if french compel spanish prisoners to work exposed.
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Capt. Burroughs arrived in New-York from Cadiz, left 2d March. Cadiz safe for present; property re-landed after French approach. Garrison: 4500 English, 1500 Portuguese, 27,000 Spaniards. Naval defense: seven Spanish, one Portuguese ships of the line, plus British men of war. Provisions for six months; new springs for water supply.