An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations — John Shaqi
An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observationsKnowles, Charles, Sir
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An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations
Knowles, Charles, Sir
Cartagena (Colombia) -- History -- Siege, 1741; Vernon, Edward, 1684-1757; Wentworth, Thomas, active 1741
[_K_] When the Council of War agreed to the Forces being embarked, the
General urged, that they might come off in the Night, lest the Enemy
should make a Sortie, so that the Boats were ordered ashore about nine
o'Clock, and from the Apprehensions they were in of the Enemy's being
at their Heels, many of them left their Baggage, and Numbers of them
their Tents and Arms, which the Enemy came the next Morning and picked
up. The Tents they pitched upon _St. Lazare_ Hill, and other Places,
where they might best be seen, and by a Flag of Truce that had Occasion
to pass the next Day, about Exchange of Prisoners, they failed not to
express their Astonishment at the precipitate Retreat of the Army. Thus
ended this famous Expedition, that was the greatest and most expensive
that ever entered the _American_ Seas, and which _Europe_ gazed on with
Admiration and Attention.
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