Siege and Assault at Boccachica Fort During Cartagena Campaign
Narrative recounts the landings and assaults on Boccachica and Fort Philip during the Cartagena expedition, including delayed landings, a forewarned breach, late-night repairs, and a perilous breach assault led by a Grenadier detachment. It notes heavy artillery exchange, several casualties, ships sunk, and the fall of the fort with prisoners taken, plus subsequent mutations in command and other military news.
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Port-Royal
Cardiagena
Col. Watson
St. Philip's Fort
St. Philip’s
Boccachica Castle
Boccachica
Thomas
Macleod
Lieut. Noffiter
Blakeney
Andrea Ferrara
Guise
Don Biasr
Carthagena
Don Blais
P.S. Boccachica
Douglass
Samford
Col. Grant
Hamond
Edmonston
America
Deptford
St. George’s
Hanover Square
Thomas Foster
Baffliney
Cornwall
Hilden
John Hilden
St. Christopher’s
Egham
Surrey
St. Katherine’s
Amelia
Caroline
Admiralty
Holland
Horse Guards
Life Guards
Clinton
New-York
Cofby
Deceas
Fowke
Ely
Minorca
Paget
Lords
William Henry Fleming
Greenwich
Jamaica
Fene
Johnson
Scilly
Admiral Vernon
Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart
Montgomery
Westminster
Westminster Should Be Declar’d Void By Parliament, That Admiral Vernon
Ipswich
Viscount Percival
Earl of
London
Middlesex
Lord Conway
Isabella Fitzroy
Duke of Grafton
Ington
William Yerbury
Blackwell-Hall
White
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Hereford
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France
United Provinces
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