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Foreign News August 24, 1786

Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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The Empress of Russia, continuing Peter the Great's legacy, has established trade across her European possessions and introduced civilization to Tartarian tribes, leading to the construction of 216 cities and many towns and villages in formerly deserted areas.

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DUBLIN, May 10.

When the arts of peace are nurtured by government with a fostering hand, the most salutary consequences will necessarily result and internal prosperity and population follow in rapid succession.

The empress of Russia has almost completed the grand work begun by her predecessor Peter the Great, and in the course of her reign has not only established trade in a far greater part of her European possessions, but has likewise introduced civilization among the remotest tribes of her new Tartarian subjects.-- This wise princess has thus occasioned two hundred and sixteen cities to be built since her accession to the imperial diadem, independent of innumerable towns and villages that are making their successive appearance in the midst of deserts and wildernesses. Thus we see that knowledge is alone true power, and that when useful science, the mechanic arts, and agricultural industry diffuse their useful effects, the rudest tracts of nature will smile with the blessings of cultivation, and every art that renders life truly social and happy, will pervade the community at large.

What sub-type of article is it?

Colonial Affairs Economic

What keywords are associated?

Russia Empress Peter The Great Tartarian Tribes Cities Built Trade Establishment Civilization Introduction

What entities or persons were involved?

Empress Of Russia Peter The Great

Where did it happen?

Russia

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Primary Location

Russia

Key Persons

Empress Of Russia Peter The Great

Outcome

216 cities built, innumerable towns and villages established in deserts and wildernesses; trade established in european possessions; civilization introduced among tartarian tribes

Event Details

The Empress of Russia has nearly completed the work started by Peter the Great by establishing trade in more of her European possessions and introducing civilization to remote Tartarian tribes, resulting in the construction of 216 cities and many towns and villages since her accession.

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