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NYEP(D.748.011
24 Oct 1748:32 (179)
August 23. We learn by private letter from Leghorn, that
after the attack and reduction of the town of Nonza, the
commander in chief of the French forces at Bastia, sent an
officer on board the English man of war which had seconded
that attack; and without whose assistance the place had
never been taken, with a message in writing, importing, that
he would be glad to know how so brisk a cannonading of the
forces of the King his master, consisted with the cessation
of arms concluded between the two crowns. The officer
having delivered this return'd without an answer, The
English commander soon after sent an officer on shore with a
drum to carry his reason for his behaviour; but in their way
to the town the drum was kill'd by a cannon shot, and the
officer being in great danger, thought proper to return
without executing his commission.
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