Note 242 — SIEGE OF SAN SEBASTIAN
Reading edition
“Sailors were employed in constructing batteries, and never did men more thoroughly enjoy their occupation.
“They had double allowance of grog, as their work required; and at their own cost they had a fiddler; they who had worked their spell in the battery, went to relieve their comrades in the dance; and at every shot which fell upon the castle they gave three cheers.”