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

Note 443 — 379.

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The ladies, returning from Spa, embarked at Ostend on the Fly sloop for Calais. On the voyage the sloop was attacked (September 17) by two French cutters. After a long engagement the French were beaten off.

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