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Capraja Courier-Boat — 12 February 1794

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Capraja Courier-Boat — 12 February 1794

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A night landing. Not a named portrait of Capraja.

Overview

The Maginaggio colours stay on Maginaggio — National Colours 8 February 1794. The 4 April Bastia landing stays on Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794. This note covers the courier-boat boarding only.1

The Boarding

Nelson’s letter to Hood, written from Agamemnon off Cabrera, says that yesterday he sent his barge to the gun-boat at the farther end of the island. Passing a small cove, the barge was fired on and one man was severely wounded. He took the boats, troops, and Fox cutter to the cove. People posted behind rocks, where the boats could not land, fired on them. It was a point of honour to take her. After failing to dislodge those people, he boarded the boat and brought her out, with the loss of six men wounded. She was a French courier-boat from Bastia to Antibes. An officer with a National cockade in his hat was killed, with several people. The journal printed on the same opening dates that contest 12 February 1794.2

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  1. Colours only: Maginaggio — National Colours 8 February 1794. 4 April landing only: Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794. ↩

  2. Barge fired on in a cove; boats, troops, and Fox cutter; people behind rocks; boarded and brought out a French courier-boat from Bastia to Antibes; six men wounded; officer with a National cockade killed. Journal on the same opening: 12 February 1794, very smart contest, six men, carried her. @nicolas1844dispatches vol. 1, pp. 353–354 (1844). Do not invent a rate for Fox. ↩

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