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

Note 102 — BERWICK, 74

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Nelson’s comment on the reappearance of these ships was not so classical: ‘Sir Sidney Smith did not burn them all—Lord Hood mistook the man: there is an old song, “Great talkers do the least, we see.”‘

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