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Admiral Cotes and British Naval Operations in the Caribbean, 1757

LONDON. “Extracts of two Letters from Vice-Admiral [Thomas] Cotes, Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s Ships at Jamaica, to Mr. [John] Cleveland, dated the 5th and 31st of December, 1757. ‘The 20th of November his majesty’s ship Assistance chaced a ...

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Officers and Men of HMS Greenwich at Cape François (1757)

[caption id="attachment_821" align="alignnone" width="520" caption="Cape Francois, 1759"][/caption] “Kingston [Jamaica], June 4.  Tuesday Evening arrived at Port-Royal, Mr. Perin Trott, late Surgeon’s Mate of the Greenwich, from Cape-Francois.  He escaped by breaking the Goal there, on the 18 ult. in Company with ...

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