Siege and Capture of La Capricieuse Frigate
A British report details the capture of the French frigate La Capricieuse, eight days from L Orient, pierced for 44 guns but mounting 32 with 308 men. Despite heavy damage, the prize was burned after prisoners were removed, with praise for Capt. Ellison and Lt. Banks. The action involved La Prudente and Licorne, and notes casualties and a survey of the wreck.
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Licorches
la Capricieufé
L’orient
England
Jess
Cadogan
Banks
Marines
de Charvel
la Carpriciture
Hagshold
Hagshold, Monf. de
Arrival of Dutch and French Flotilla in the Bay
Since our last, the Mail from Holland Cadiz Font Jo M de Beauffet entered this Bay on the 16th with his squadron bringing in a bilandet a privateer and a merthane flyip. Le Protecteur arrived two days later with two prizes belonging to the English leet bound for Quebec escorted by two frigates. Le Protecteur passed through the feec. It appears Don Louis Cordova will resume command of the combined ficex.
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Holland
Cadiz
Font Jo. M. de Beauffet
Quebec
Don Louis Cordova
Jamaica fleet arrives safely to port from Portsmouth
An express reports the Jamaica fleet of near one hundred sail under convoy of the Lion and the San Carlos has arrived safely from Portsmouth. They reach Bristol Liverpool and Dover and are valued at about two million pounds. Letters from Barbadoes and Plymouth detail Admiral Rodney engaging Spanish transports and a chase involving Swedish ships and a captured brig.
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Portsmouth
Jamaica
Lion
Bristol
Liverpool
Dover
Jersey
Falmouth
Barbadoes
Rodney
Plymouth
Racehorsz Hooxer
Baker
Antigua
Chace
Lieut. Baker
Lisbon
Bourdeaux
St. George’s
European squadrons combine after chase at Caribbean
The Spanish Solano fleet and a French squadron from Martinique neared Guadaloupe as Sir George's fleet harried them from Barbadoes. After decisive maneuvering and equal odds, Sir George retired to St Lucia with the two fleets converging off Dominica on June 21. The merged force now numbers four ships of the line plus many frigates, well supplied for defense and attack, as British authorities plan further naval actions and shipbuilding.
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Don Solano
Sir George
Barbadoes
Guadaloupe
Solano
Guichen
Martinique
Feas
St Lucia
Prince Rupert's Bay
Dominica
Dover
London
Thanet
Wood
Antigua
Lords of the Admiralty
Portsmouth
Scotland
Cro‘zé
Fort Juan
Admiralty
Nelly
Scott
Quebec
West Indies
Martinico
Lord Roughborough
Baron Eyre
Bara
Old-Street
Lord Loughborough
Gardon
George
Hyde Park
Stanley George Haywood
Woodward of
New Forest
Paulet St
Shrewsbury
Holborn
Jonathan Birch
Tower Hill
Josiah M Jyneux
Ely
Dublin
Wile
Ruffel-street
Co Mir
Opkins
Deifry-iand
Headon
Feathis Delap
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Oxon
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Admiralty Office
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Spithead
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Richard Montgomery
Thomas England
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Fobn Richardson
Carpenter
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Paris
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Vnilanc
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Hague
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Sweden
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London Bridge
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