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Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period

Note 76 — THE REVENGE.

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The Invencible, flagship of Don Rodrigo de Torres, was struck by lightning in Havana harbor, June 30, 1741, and blown up. Letter of the viceroy Horcasitas, that day, describing the occurrence, in Pezuela, Historia de Cuba, II. 575-577. The admiral did not perish.

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