United States Court of Claims
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Excerpt from United States Court of Claims: Decision of the Case of the Private Armed Brig. General Armstrong, Captain Sam C. Reid and Others, Claimants, Vs; The United States In the afternoon the British brig Carnation, of 18 guns; the ship Rota, of 38 guns; and the 74 gun ship Plantagenet, came into the port, and anchored about seven o´clock. In the evening four boats approached the General Armstrong. Captain Reid repeatedly hailed them, and warned them to keep off. They continued to approach, when he fired on them and killed and wounded several men. The boats returned the fire, and killed one man, and wounded the first lieutenant. The British then retreated, and about midnight renewed the attack with twelve boats and about four hundred men, which ended in their total defeat with great slaughter, and the partial destruction of their boats. The American brig carried seven guns, and her crew amounted to ninety men. She had two killed, and seven wounded, while the killed and wounded on the part of the British must have been nearly two hundred men. So great was the loss that the Calypso sloop of war, which arrived a few days after, was sent home with the wounded men. The British commander, Captain Lloyd, finding this mode of attack unavailing, with laudable discretion anchored the Carnation close in shore, and cannonaded the brig, when her gallant defenders finding it useless to resist such an overwhelming force, abandoned the vessel, and she was then safely set on fire by the British. The kingdom of Portugal was neutral, or professed to be so, in the war between the United States and Great Britain, and Fayal was a neutral port. Any violation of the neutrality of the port, by either of the belligerents, was a breach of the law of nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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