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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle Foreign News February 17, 1769
Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A Leghorn letter reports transports full of Jesuits expelled from Corsica arriving under French escort, and notes the French expedition is losing men to fighting and climate while Paoli and the Corsicans resist.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 98.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 94.28% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.67% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
Letter from Leghorn, October 3.
"We embarked at Antibes on the 20th of September, arrived safe at Genoa the 22d at noon. The same Day arrived in the harbour, five transports full of Jesuits from Corsica, escorted by two French frigates, they were not suffered to land, and an express was sent to France on their account; they are sadly tossed about; the French expedition in Corsica does not go so smoothly as they flattered themselves with; they have lost a good many men, and the climate will dispatch a few more. Paoli stands firm to his tackle; and the Corsicans seem resolved to struggle hard for liberty."
"We embarked at Antibes on the 20th of September, arrived safe at Genoa the 22d at noon. The same Day arrived in the harbour, five transports full of Jesuits from Corsica, escorted by two French frigates, they were not suffered to land, and an express was sent to France on their account; they are sadly tossed about; the French expedition in Corsica does not go so smoothly as they flattered themselves with; they have lost a good many men, and the climate will dispatch a few more. Paoli stands firm to his tackle; and the Corsicans seem resolved to struggle hard for liberty."
What sub-type of article is it?
Military Campaign
Religious Affairs
Rebellion Or Revolt
What keywords are associated?
Corsica French Expedition
Jesuits Expelled
Paoli
Leghorn
What entities or persons were involved?
Paoli
Where did it happen?
Corsica
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Corsica
Event Date
October 3
Key Persons
Paoli
Outcome
french expedition lost many men; jesuits denied landing; corsicans resolved to fight for liberty.