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BG.758.044
17 Jul 1758:21 (172)
May 6. We learn from Carthagena, that the whole city was
surprized there lately by a singular accident. The French
admiral, M. de la Clue, having given orders to all the ships
in his squadron to give general salvo upon Holy Saturday,
when by ringing the bells, they knew that the hymn Gloria in
excelsis was sung at mass, the bullets not being drawn in
the redoubtable, she fired a broadside on the Souverain and
the Centaur, by which many were killed and wounded, and both
the ships were disabled.
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