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Virginia Argus
Richmond, Virginia
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Rumors from Hamburg report a severe engagement where Prussians defeated the French, with 20,000 French casualties, and imminent restoration of Hanover to Britain. Doubts arise as Dutch papers to Oct 17 mention only ongoing peaceful negotiations between France and Prussia.
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In confirmation of what we published on Saturday last, of an engagement having taken place between the French and Prussians, we are informed, that an officer belonging to one of the British frigates now in Hampton Roads a few days ago boarded an American vessel from Hamburg to Philadelphia, out 50 days, the Captain of which said, that it was currently reported there at the time of his sailing (about the 19th October) that a severe engagement had taken place between the Prussians and French, in which the latter were defeated—and that Hanover was immediately to be restored to Great Britain. We very much doubt the truth of these reports, as by an arrival at Boston from Rotterdam, which brings Dutch papers to the 17th of October, nothing is said of an engagement; but that negotiations of pacific nature were still going on between France and Prussia.
An arrival at Charleston from Hamburg, has brought another account of the rumor in circulation, among the coffee houses at Hamburg, of the defeat of the French by the Prussians, with the addition of the loss of twenty thousand men, sustained by the French!!
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Hamburg
Event Date
About The 19th October
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french defeated by prussians with loss of twenty thousand men; hanover to be restored to great britain
Event Details
Rumors circulated in Hamburg of a severe engagement between Prussians and French resulting in French defeat. An officer from a British frigate boarded an American vessel whose captain reported this around October 19. Additional rumor from Charleston arrival specifies 20,000 French losses. Doubts based on Dutch papers to October 17 indicating ongoing peaceful negotiations between France and Prussia.