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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News September 19, 1745
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
A Paris gentleman reports that rejoicing over Fontenoy turned to grief, with French losses exceeding 18,000 in the battle and siege of Tournay; he praises British troops and the Duke of Cumberland.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% 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
- 97.3% 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
- 98.98% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
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— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 98.0% (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
- 90.0% 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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Copy of a Letter from a Gentleman at Paris to a Friend in London.
The Battle at Fontenoy occasioned here great Rejoicings; but as Time brings forth all Things, so in this Action it has done the same; Joy soon returned to Sorrow; there is not a noble Family in France but have lost Friend or Friends: The Number killed and wounded amounts to many more than was first reported; for upon a strict Examination our Loss amounts to upwards of 18,000 Men, in this Action, and in the Siege of Tournay: Your Troops are here reported to stand as it becomes Men of Courage and Conduct: We are of Opinion, had the Dutch Troops so gallantly behaved, our Troops must soon have given Way: Your Duke of Cumberland behaves himself as a gallant Commander. We bought this Action at a dear Rate.
The Battle at Fontenoy occasioned here great Rejoicings; but as Time brings forth all Things, so in this Action it has done the same; Joy soon returned to Sorrow; there is not a noble Family in France but have lost Friend or Friends: The Number killed and wounded amounts to many more than was first reported; for upon a strict Examination our Loss amounts to upwards of 18,000 Men, in this Action, and in the Siege of Tournay: Your Troops are here reported to stand as it becomes Men of Courage and Conduct: We are of Opinion, had the Dutch Troops so gallantly behaved, our Troops must soon have given Way: Your Duke of Cumberland behaves himself as a gallant Commander. We bought this Action at a dear Rate.
What sub-type of article is it?
War Report
Military Campaign
What keywords are associated?
Fontenoy Losses
French Mourning
Paris Letter
What entities or persons were involved?
Duke Of Cumberland
Where did it happen?
Paris
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Paris
Event Date
After The Battle Of Fontenoy
Key Persons
Duke Of Cumberland
Outcome
french killed and wounded upwards of 18,000 in the action and siege of tournay.