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IC.778.041
17 Sep 1778:21 (11/526)
London, June 24. . . Anecdote of Admiral Kepple. -- in the
year 1756, when Mr. Kepple commanded the Torbay man of war,
being on a cruize in the bay, he fell in with two French men
of war, both of which he engaged, and though his ship was
much shattered, he forced them to sheer off. During the
engagement he received a wound in the leg, which was thought
to be very dangerous (as it brought him on the deck) and the
people came to carry him down to the Cockpit; but he very
calmly took his handkerchief from his pocket and bound round
it; saying, "Stop my lads; reach a chair; as I can't stand,
I must sit: This, adds he clapping his hand to the place,
may spoil my dancing, but my stomach for fighting must have
la garbolusses to pall it.["]
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