The Quarterly Review, Volume 264, Issue 524John Murray, 1935 |
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Page 273
... frigates , one of which was La RĂ©sistance , ' forty guns ( Captain Montague ) , and another ' La Constance , ' twenty - four guns ( Captain Desauny ) . The naval commander , Descasteaux , appears to have been in the third . The French ...
... frigates , one of which was La RĂ©sistance , ' forty guns ( Captain Montague ) , and another ' La Constance , ' twenty - four guns ( Captain Desauny ) . The naval commander , Descasteaux , appears to have been in the third . The French ...
Page 274
... frigates actually sailed round Pen Anglas into Fishguard Bay , but rejoined her consorts after discovering the guns of the fort , capturing a small sloop in her passage . Many of the British vessels in the bay stood out to sea . The ...
... frigates actually sailed round Pen Anglas into Fishguard Bay , but rejoined her consorts after discovering the guns of the fort , capturing a small sloop in her passage . Many of the British vessels in the bay stood out to sea . The ...
Page 282
... Frigate is taken . ' A final gathering - up of loose - ends . The frigates , as events turned out , would have been safer had they after all remained off Fishguard . It was not till a fortnight after the landing that a British squadron ...
... Frigate is taken . ' A final gathering - up of loose - ends . The frigates , as events turned out , would have been safer had they after all remained off Fishguard . It was not till a fortnight after the landing that a British squadron ...
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