Bulletins and Other State Intelligence

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Compiled and arranged from the official documents published in the London gazette., 1795

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Página 84 - Venerable, off the coast of Holland, the i2th of October, by log (nth1 three PM Camperdown ESE eight mile. Wind N. by E. Sir, I have the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
Página 153 - M'Keuzie, who commanded, it failed, from the intricacy of the -roads and the timidity and ignorance of the guides ; while it...
Página 159 - I should do injustice to my own feelings, if I did not here declare my regret that I could not agree with the President.
Página 6 - I HAVE the honour to lay before your Royal .' Highness the report of the success of the attack made on the enemy on the 30th ult., by MajorGeneral David Dundas. The corps destined for this expedition consisted of ten battalions of British infantry, under MajorGeneral Lord Cathcart, Major-General Gordon, and Lieutenant-Colonel M'Kenzie ; six squadrons of light cavalry, and one hundred and fifty hussars, under Major-General Sir Robert Lawrie; of the Loyal Emigre's ; and of four battalions and four...
Página 158 - But having formed the army from columns of march into two lines, and made a detachment from my right and left to attack both their flanks, while I advanced with the main body and artillery (which, much to the credit of Major Yorke, was extremely well conducted and...
Página 75 - Admiralty, that the approach of the equinoctial new moon rendering it unsafe to proceed immediately out of the Chesapeake with the combined expedition, to act upon the plans which had been concerted previ.
Página 146 - A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received at Earl Bathurst's office, addressed to his lordship by Major General Cooke, dated Cadiz, August 30, 1812 :— Cadiz, August 3O.
Página 77 - I shall ever feel theimpression which the good conduct of the captains, officers, seamen, marines, and soldiers in the squadron has made on my mind ; and it was the greatest pleasure I ever received to see the spirit manifested by the men, who, instead of being cast down at seeing thirty sail of the enemy's ships attacking our little squadron, were in the highest spirits imaginable. I do...
Página 137 - I was enabled to judge with more precision, as the Commodore obligingly permitted me to accompany him and to visit the other ships employed under his direction upon this service. The America had two men killed and four wounded and one gun disabled, being struck by a shot ; the Stately one man wounded. Some shots passed through the ships but did not materially injure them. I am fearful the Major General will not be able to write by this conveyance — a Genoese ship, which intends touching at St.
Página 88 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44

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