BLOCKADE OF THE ISLAND OF CURACOA
EARLY in the present century the Hon. John Murray was entrusted by the vice-admiral commanding in chief on the Jamaica station with his Majesty's frigate La Fortune and two eighteen-gun sloops, in addition to his own frigate La Franchise, for the purpose of capturing the island of Curacoa, then...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Metropolitan magazine, 1833-1840 1833-1840, 1838-01, Vol.21 (81), p.85-91 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | EARLY in the present century the Hon. John Murray was entrusted by the vice-admiral commanding in chief on the Jamaica station with his Majesty's frigate La Fortune and two eighteen-gun sloops, in addition to his own frigate La Franchise, for the purpose of capturing the island of Curacoa, then a Dutch settlement, lying off the Spanish Main, and which the commodore pledged himself to subject to the British crown in a given space of time. |
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| ISSN: | 2043-4383 |