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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Reports from Copenhagen, Mecklenburg, and London detail warlike preparations in Northern Europe: Russian, Austrian, Danish, Swedish, and Prussian officers raising recruits; ships fitting out; possible attacks on Holstein and Norway; alliance between Russia, Prussia, and Sweden with territorial claims; Prussian troops marching into Holstein and towards Hamburg, threatening Danish provinces.
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Monday Captain Skimmer arrived here from Newcastle, last from Plymouth, in 6 Weeks:
From the public Prints we have the following Articles, viz.
COPENHAGEN, October 6, 1772:
All our advices from the North have a warlike appearance. At Hamburgh, Altona, in the Holstein, at Dantick and Bremen, are Russian, Austrian, Danish, Swedish, and Prussian Officers raising recruits; and as trade is dead, and provisions scarce, they meet with great success. In Denmark and Sweden, as well as in Russia, they are fitting out ships with the utmost expedition: the Duchy of Holstein is likely to be attacked by Russia, and Norway by Sweden, and his Prussian Majesty will probably not be idle on this occasion. In short, some politicians think there will be a general war in Europe. The accounts we received by the last post are, that the Courts of Russia, Berlin, and Sweden, have made an alliance: Sweden makes pretensions to Finland, and Prussia to Pomerania, but Prussia is to pay four millions of rubles to Russia.
Extract of a Letter from Swerin, in Mecklenburg, dated September 28.
The Prussian Alexander, the legislator of Germany, the scourge of his Neighbours, the Master of politics of Europe, has at last resolved to discover his scheme, by sending a large body of Troops into the Duchy of Holstein, namely, into that Part belonging to the Grand Duke. Our Merchants have the Commission from the Agents for the Prussian Army to provide Magazines of cheap kind necessary for a large body of Troops, in their March thro' this Duchy. These Magazines are to be stationed upon different roads in the way to Holstein; but as we see the alliance between Prussia and Russia, concerning the affair of Poland, we rather believe that the neighbouring Provinces, as Danish Holstein, Sleswick, Gottorp, and Jutland, would have more reason to prepare a warlike resistance, as these provinces are in the hands of the King of Denmark, from the beginning to this present moment, by an illegal possession.
LONDON, October 10,
Letters by the foreign mails yesterday declare, that a body of 40,000 Prussians were in full march for Hamburgh, which seems to indicate that city will not long continue under its present form of government.
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Foreign News Details
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Duchy Of Holstein
Event Date
September October 1772
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alliance between courts of russia, berlin, and sweden; sweden pretensions to finland; prussia to pomerania with payment of four millions of rubles to russia; prussian troops marching into holstein and towards hamburgh, threatening change in hamburgh's government and danish provinces.
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Warlike preparations in Northern Europe with officers raising recruits in Hamburgh, Altona, Holstein, Dantick, and Bremen; ships fitting out in Denmark, Sweden, Russia; likely attacks on Holstein by Russia and Norway by Sweden; Prussian troops marching into Holstein belonging to Grand Duke, with supplies being provided; 40,000 Prussians marching to Hamburgh.