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Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814)

Note 94 — BERWICK, 74

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Nelson wrote to his uncle, William Suckling, that, in his opinion, we ought to have taken them—men of war and convoy; and if ‘we had given the Bey 50,000l. he would have been glad to have put up with the insult offered to his dignity.’

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