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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… hundred ship loads of stone for the strengthening of the Mole. Zante, 12th December, 1610. [ Italian.] Dec. 13. Copy …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… are working, but very slowly, at the construction of a mole at the Strait of Gibraltar, but if they do not proceed …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… other professors of the same arts. They propose to build a mole across the mouth of the port of stone instead of wood, … that La Rochelle is lost. They promise the king that the mole will be completed in less than three months. I hear on …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… have arrived from Paris to-day. The sea has broken the mole at La Rochelle and if the king had tarried in taking it … four or five days longer the sea would have broken the mole, as it did. He maintains that they had provisions for …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… brought him to fetch the engineers who are to build the mole. To attract as much trade as possible to the place they …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… the Duke of Ossuna. Accordingly his Excellency went to the Mole and hurriedly fitted out eight or ten galleys to go and …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… with France so sensitive on the matter and thinking the mole will soon decide it in her favour. The proposals of the … develop of itself. They reckon in this way. By April the mole will have succeeded or not. If it does, La Rochelle will … the port since the end of last week. Gamorini's stone mole and Targoni's wooden stockade both make marvellous …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… war and some merchantmen which they had captured; that the mole there had been seriously damaged. That seven merchantmen …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… Targoni's machines have failed and they propose to build a mole. The prince told me that ships go in and out freely, but …
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