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IC.782.013
2 May 1782:13,21 (14/714)
Madrid, Feb 19. Col. Don Pablo Sangro, one of his
Excellency the Duke de Crillon's aid-de camps, has brought
hither the important and agreeable news of the surrender of
Fort St. Phillip the 4th of this month, and that all the
garrison were prisoners of war.
. . . [Articles of Capitulation follow.] . . .
Article I. Proposed by the English General.
. . . the garrison shall go out with all the honours of war,
. . .
Answer. . . [3 lines] the garrison shall go out, holding the
firelock on the shoulder, drums beating, match lighted and
flags flying until it be filed off in the center of the
army, where they shall lay down their arms and flags; . . .
[8 Articles and answers follow on other terms of
capitulation.]
Mahon, February 4th, 1782. 10 o'clock in the evening. . . [3
lines]
So soon as the King received the news of so glorious an
event, he ordered immediately a public thanksgiving to the
Lord of Hosts; and a Te Deum was sung in the King's chapel,
and a general illumination was exhibited during three
nights.
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