Note 158 — Chapter XX
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Report of Consultation on board the “Superbe,” 7 June, 1745. “Commodore Warren did say publickly that before the Circular Battery was reduced he would not venture in here with three times ye sea force he had with him, and, through divine assistance, we tore that [battery] and this city almost to pieces.”—Pepperrell to Shirley, 4 July, 1745.