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BEP(F.742.016
20 Sep 1742:41,42 (372)
The following is a translation of a letter (found on board
one of the Spanish prizes lately brought into Newport) from
a gentleman of note at Augustine, to a colonel at the
Havanna; giving an account of their expedition to Georgia. .
. [42, para. 8] " Tho' some men may think what we have done
is not sufficient for us to sing Te Deum, yet I cannot help
saying, that the English carried the cannon which they took
without opposition at Porto Bello to the Tower of London,
and erected a statue to Vice-Admiral Vernon, and vainly
gloried in that action performed without sweat as if they
had conquered more land than Pompey the Great. . .
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