Sir Sidney Smith at Flushing - a Complete Issue of The Edinburgh Evening Courant for Saturday, May 26, 1804.

£85 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A full column and a half contains the entirety of Smith’s Despatch to Lord Keith as printed in the London Gazette . Not one of Smith’s most notable successes, Keith explains the failure of the British Squadron to detain the enemy’s flotilla at Flushing “… notwithstanding the vigorous measures that were used…” on account of “… the numerous disadvantages to which His Majesty’s ships were subjected in consequence of the shallowness of the water, and the effect of the enemy’s field artillery and their batteries on the shore…”

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