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“...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 by the gunboats, seemed to fly towards the
scene of action. Those from Point Carrière mounted the walls
near where Captain Faulknor had so gallantly run his ship,
and seconding...”
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“...Winn, Lascelles, 293
Wippell, Rev. J. C., 94
Wireless, 67, 70, 133, 150, 395
Wismar, 376, 377, 387
Wolmer, John, 268, 273
Wolmer’s Schools, 273
Woodbridge, Dudley, 109, no
Woodford, Sir Ralph, 122, 124
Wooton Waven, 244
Wylie, Lieut. H., 271-2
" Xaymaca,” 257
Yaixahs River, 296
Yaws, 162
Yearwood, Hon. T., 84
Yellow Fever, 50, 132, 175,
189, 224, 315, 366, 422,
424, and see Fevers
Yorkshire Regiment, 225
Young, Lieut.-Col., 124
Young, Sir William, 150, 192
Young’s Island, 192
Yumuri, 358, 359
Zebra, H.M.S., 314
Zent, 403, 414
Readers wishing to study West Indian
statistics are advised to obtain a copy of “The
Handbook of the British West Indies, British
Guiana, and British Honduras,” compiled by
the Author and published by the West India
Committee, 14, Trinity Square, London, E.C.3....”
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