Sorry I forgot to tell you guys about my holiday. Well done, Steve...
Here we go:
A daring charge by Midlands-based troopers has put the flower of the Scottish nobility to flight - and gained the highest of morale as a result. Our Irish and Lowlands clansmen followed up the victory and despersed contingents from the McGregors, McDonalds and Frasers.
The recent misunderstanding between ourselves and the Dutch has been cleared up, and our Privateers refrained from sinking Dutch merchantmen NE of Bermuda - most restrained of them!
A formal peace can now be signed in London - only the arrival of the Dutch ambassador is needed. Nevertheless, our East Coast defences have been temporarily increased....
Pirates seem to have taken the Spanish colony of San Juan.