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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 410 — 357.

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After a fruitless search for the French fleet, Admiral Keppel returned to Portsmouth. "Admiral Keppel is very unlucky in having missed them, for they had not above twenty-five ships" (H. Walpole, October 8, 1778).

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