Note 14 — Chapter X

Baron Thiebault ascribes the success of the insurgents, and the loss of Faro, to the news of Dupont’s surrender, and to the landing of troops, arms, ammunition, and money, at Faro, from the English squadron. Not a man nor a musket had been landed from that squadron, and the surrender of Dupont did not take place till a month afterwards! With so little accuracy do the French relate the circumstances of their ill success, even where no military misconduct is imputable.