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IL.779.027
12 Jul 1779:42 (2/57)
From a late London Publication. Anecdote of Admiral Keppel.
In the year 1756, when Mr. Keppel commanded the Torbay man
of war, being on a cruise in the bay, he fell in with two
French men of war, both of which he engaged, and, tho' his
ship was much shattered, he forced them to sheer off.
During the engagement he received a wound in the leg, which
was thought to be very dangerous (as it brought him on the
deck) and the people come to carry him down to the cockpit;
but he very calmly took his handkerchief from his pocket and
bound round it; saying, "Stop my lads; reach a chair; as I
can't stand, I must sit: This, adds he clapping his hand to
the place, may spoil my dancing, but my stomach for fighting
must have larger bolusses to pall it".
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