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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ... fleet at Barbadoes, where he joined Rear-Admiral Barrington.* In this dangerous voyage he lost only one small vessel, which was taken by the French squadron. A resolution was immediately formed to attack the ifland of St. Lucia: and, that no time might be lost in making new signals, Admiral Barrington adcpted thofe given out by Commodore Hotham. The Admiral sent ahead the Ariadne, Ceres, Snake, Pelican, and Barbadoes- and ordered them to be stationed so as to intercept any vessels that might attempt to escape from St. Lucia, or which, by going there, might give the enemy notice of the intended attack. With the rest of the fleet and troops, he failed from Carlifle Bay on the 12th of December: and in the asternoon of next day, the whole anchored in the Grand Cul de Sac of the ifland of St. Lucia. The troops were ordered immediately to prepare for landing, and soon aster to get into the flat-boats, and assemble astern of the Preston. Commodore Hotham, assisted by Captains Grissiths, Braithwaite, and Onflow, superintended the debarkation. The Venus was ordered to silence a battery of four twelve pounders, that sired on the ships- and this was accomplished in half an hour by Captain Ferguson. The sirst division of the army, under the command of Brigadier-General Medows, then made good their landing- and were immediately supported by the fn.st brigade, under Brigadier-General Prescott. The remainder of the troops, under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Henry Calder, were landed early next morning. Brigadier-General Medows, as soon as he had landed and formed the troops on the beach, pushed forward with his division, and forced the Chevalier de Micoud, with a corps of regular troops and a great body of militia, to abandon the heights on... Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain, from 1727 to 1783 Volume 4 by Robert Beatson
