Päiväykset juuri sen jälkeen kun britit vaihtaneet vuotensa täsmäämään suomalaisen vuosiluvun kanssa.
Tukholma 26.2. (London Gazette 22.3.1715): "The last letters from the province of Westro-Bothnia advised, that they had intelligence 6000 Muscovite Dragoons were marching from Finland round the Bothnick Gulph, and that Part of those Troops were already advanced as far as Torno."
Tukholma 26.3. (London Gazette 9.4.1715): "Letters from Orground and the Places situate on the Bothnick Gulph, do all give an Account of great Fires having for two or three Days together been seen upon the Isle of Aland and the Coast of Finland, whence they conclude that the Muscovites have begun to burn and destroy the Towns and Villages both on that Island and on the Continent."
Harmi ettei wikipedia osannut nopealla silmäyksellä antaa mitään osviittaa pitikö tuo "tiedustelutieto 6000 moskovalaisesta rakuunasta" paikkansa.
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