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BEP(F.748.027
31 Oct 1748:31 (690)
Aug 23. We learn by a private letter from Leghorn, that
after attack and reduction of the town of Nonza, but the
troops of allies and the Corsicans, the commander in chief
of the French corps at Bastia, sent an officer on board the
English man of war which had seconded that attack, and
without whose assistance the [gully] had never been taken,
with a message in writing, importing that [gully] would be
glad to know how so brisk a cannonading of the King master,
consisted with the cessation of arms concluded between two
crowns. The officer having delivered this returned without
answer. The English commander soon after sent an officer on
[gully] with a drum to carry his reasons for his behaviour;
but in [gully] way to the town the drum was killed by a
cannon shot, and [the] officer being in great danger thought
proper to return without [comple]ating his commission.
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