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Maginaggio — National Colours 8 February 1794

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Maginaggio — National Colours 8 February 1794

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A harbour town. Not a named portrait of Maginaggio.

Overview

The 4 April Bastia landing stays on Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794. The Capraja courier-boat stays on Capraja Courier-Boat — 12 February 1794. The 21 January mill stays on Fiorenzo Flour Mill — 21 January 1794. The 6 February Centuri polaccas stay on Centuri Four Polaccas — 6 February 1794. This note covers the 8 February colours only.1

The Landing

Two letters dated 8 February 1794 record the same morning. To Paoli, from Agamemnon between Bastia and Cape Corse, Nelson says he sent a flag of truce, landed, destroyed the vessels, and struck with his own hands the National colours flying in the town and the Tree of Liberty planted there. To Hood the same day he names Maginaggio. The commandant’s answer was that they were Republicans, that Maginaggio was without defence, and that he should go to St. Fiorenzo, Bastia, or Calvi. Nelson landed, struck the National colours with his own hand on the top of an old castle, and ordered the Tree of Liberty in the centre of the town cut down. The commandant retired about two miles and kept a National flag flying. The letter to Hood also says they destroyed about five hundred tuns of wine ready to be shipped, and ten sail of vessels.2

Vessel-counts from later journals stay off this page. Bastia and Calvi stay off this page.

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  1. 4 April landing only: Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794. Courier-boat only: Capraja Courier-Boat — 12 February 1794. ↩

  2. Letters of 8 February 1794 to Paoli and Hood; flag of truce; Maginaggio; struck National colours with his own hand; Tree of Liberty cut down; about 500 tuns of wine and ten sail in the Hood letter. @nicolas1844dispatches vol. 1, pp. 351–352 (1844). Do not import later journal vessel-counts onto this page. ↩

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