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“...the town is the
equally historic Fort Louis, under whose massive walls
vessels visiting the port drop anchor. It was in the
harbour behind this fort that De Grasse’s fleet lay before
it sailed to meet defeat but not dishonour in the Battle
of the Saints in 1782 (see page 247) and it was this fort
Whose walls Captain Robert Faulknor scaled on March
20th, 1794. His Majesty’s ships Asia and Zebra (Captain
Faulknor) were ordered to stand in towards the harbour.
Both did so; but three times the Asia veered round,
so the Zebra went on alone.
Captain Faulknor, seeing that he stood no chance of being
seconded by the Asia, and being all this time under a dreadful
fire from Fort Louis, boldly pushed in towards the fort, still
reserving his fire till he came close to the walls of it; and then
running his ship aground, plying his small arms and great guns,
he drove the enemy from thence, and leaping into a boat scaled
the ramparts. Seeing the Zebra go in, all the boats with scaling
ladders, attended...”
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“...Antigua, 199-212
— Accommodation in, 202
—- Area, situation and popula-
tion, 199
— Books on, 31
— Climate, 200
—- Communications, 202
— Constitution, 201—2
— Freemasonry, 204
— History, 200-1
—- Parishes, 200
— Sports, 202
Antilla, 348, 363
Antilles, 1
Apex (Trinidad), Ltd., 142
Apodaca, Admiral, 116, 121,
131
Apostles’ Battery, 262
Arakaka, 377, 388
Arawaks, 35, 291, 322, 333, 339
Arima, 114, 118, 119, 138, 142
Aripero, 446
Arnold, William, no
Arouca, 119, 138
Arrowroot, 45, 185
Artemisa, 360
Asia, H.M.S., 314
Asphalt, 115, and see Pitch Lake
" Aspinall " pan, 439
Aspinwall, W. H., 419, 422, 423
Asser, General Sir John, 47
Assiento, the, 36
Atares, 350
Atherton, Gertrude, 33, 231
Athol Island, 71
Atlantis, 19...”
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