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Chapter 3 - 1803 - 1814 -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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storeroom, where he kept the clothes he supplied the sailors with, and were proceeding to rig themselves out in new suits before the French officers took charge of them. I was putting the magazine to rights, when two French officers came down to see it, and to take charge. In the French service the officers in charge of the powder, shot, and artillery were military, and their regulations are not so strict as ours. They were coming into the magazine with swords by their sides, when I called their attention politely to the rules of our service hanging up, by which no one

 
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was allowed to enter with any metal about him. My suit was of canvas with horn buttons, and canvas shoes. As soon as they understood they politely laid aside their accoutrements, saw all the arrangements, expressing their admiration. I then locked up and gave them the key. Being now a prisoner of war, I found I had only the doctor for a companion, who was left in charge of our wounded, and a few of the crew to help him. All the rest of the crew and the officers were removed on board the Cleopatra, and a prize captain and fifty men were sent to take charge of the Cleopatra, and navigate her.

Amongst the officers removed to the Milan was a midshipman named Provo Wallis, who first smelt powder in this action, having joined the navy the previous year. He said to a correspondent of the World (1888): "Nothing could be finer than the engagement of the little Cleopatra with her 12-pounders and the Great Ville de Milan, fought between Bermuda and the West Indies in February

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