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... land ; and began to open ground on the 9th of March . On the 12th of March the Spa- niards opened their battery , con- fifting of eight 18 , and one 24 pounder . Their fire feems to have had fome confiderable effect , on the embrafures ...
... land ; and began to open ground on the 9th of March . On the 12th of March the Spa- niards opened their battery , con- fifting of eight 18 , and one 24 pounder . Their fire feems to have had fome confiderable effect , on the embrafures ...
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... land force , including 100 engineers , amounting to 11,460 effective men . The island of Jamaica was generally fuppofed to be the great object in view ; to facilitate the reduction of which , the giving of a decifive blow to Rodney by ...
... land force , including 100 engineers , amounting to 11,460 effective men . The island of Jamaica was generally fuppofed to be the great object in view ; to facilitate the reduction of which , the giving of a decifive blow to Rodney by ...
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... land forces , form- ed fuch an apparent fuperiority , as nothing in thofe feas or islands , feemed at all capable of refifting . The danger of Jamaica appeared to be great indeed ; and the other iflands , which are called leeward , from ...
... land forces , form- ed fuch an apparent fuperiority , as nothing in thofe feas or islands , feemed at all capable of refifting . The danger of Jamaica appeared to be great indeed ; and the other iflands , which are called leeward , from ...
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... land force , which it was fuppofed would be in their hands , the reduction of Ja- maica would not be an object of much dificulty or delay ; that fome or all of the fmaller iflands would follow of courfe ; but that , without spending too ...
... land force , which it was fuppofed would be in their hands , the reduction of Ja- maica would not be an object of much dificulty or delay ; that fome or all of the fmaller iflands would follow of courfe ; but that , without spending too ...
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... land with wild and undistinguished fury , yet the anti- ent colony , and till then flourishing ifland of Barbadoes , was more particularly the marked victim of its rage . The hurricane began in that island , on the morning of the 10th ...
... land with wild and undistinguished fury , yet the anti- ent colony , and till then flourishing ifland of Barbadoes , was more particularly the marked victim of its rage . The hurricane began in that island , on the morning of the 10th ...
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