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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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On May 9 in Barcelona, Spanish forces embarked over 9,000 troops including guards, regiments, cavalry, and specialists onto 150 transports with ammunition, provisions, and equipment. The fleet sailed to Cartagena, rendezvous for additional 15,000 troops under M. de Zevallos and Count O'Reilly, destination unknown.
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All sorts of ammunition, with provisions, a complete hospital, vast quantities of straw, scaling ladders, and above 3000 fascines have been put onboard 150 transports, and we began this morning to embark three battalions of Spanish guards, three ditto of the Walloon guards, of 700 men each; two battalions of the regiment of Arragon; two of the Irish regiment, with the two companies of grenadiers; a battalion of the King's regiment; a ditto of the regiment of Guadalajara, a squadron of cavalry, and one of dragoons, with their horses; 120 soldiers and six officers chosen from the Swiss regiment of Colonel Buch, who embarks in quality of major-general; 100 men chosen from the artillery, and a great number of picked officers of the train; several physicians and surgeons, a comptroller general, a treasurer, commissaries of war, &c. &c. The whole fleet left this place this afternoon, and are to sail for Carthagena, which is the rendezvous of all the other convoys. We compute at 9000 the troops embarked at this place, and at 15,000 those on board the other convoys. We are totally ignorant of the destination of this armament, of which M. de Zevallos, and Count O'Reilly, Lieutenant General, is to have the command.
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Barcelona
Event Date
May 9
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fleet departed barcelona for cartagena rendezvous; 9,000 troops embarked here, total 24,000 with other convoys; destination unknown.
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Ammunition, provisions, hospital, straw, scaling ladders, and over 3,000 fascines loaded onto 150 transports. Embarked: three battalions Spanish guards, three Walloon guards (700 men each), two battalions Arragon regiment, two Irish regiment with grenadier companies, one battalion King's regiment, one Guadalajara regiment, one squadron cavalry, one dragoons with horses, 120 soldiers and six officers from Swiss regiment under Colonel Buch as major-general, 100 artillery men, picked train officers, physicians, surgeons, comptroller general, treasurer, war commissaries. Fleet sailed afternoon.