D-14. AL (copy) to H.W. Bayntun. On board the Cumberland. 3p. 32 x 19.5 cm. Deals with their encounter with a French Frigate and the damage which resulted. The Hercules couldn't prevent the retreat of the frigate; but that was blamed on the favorable winds that the French met with, 1803 June 28

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D-14. AL (copy) to H.W. Bayntun. On board the Cumberland. 3p. 32 x 19.5 cm. Deals with their encounter with a French Frigate and the damage which resulted. The Hercules couldn't prevent the retreat of the frigate; but that was blamed on the favorable winds that the French met with

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Consists of letters to and from Sir John Duckworth to family and his naval associates and superiors regarding his naval engagements in the Caribbean, the outcomes (casualties, disposition of captured vessels, logistics), his courts-martial and some insights on the colonial administration of British Jamaica. There are 28 sets of manuscript letters, with the dates ranging from March of 1801 to July of 1807. Each of the letters are numbered D-1 to D-28, but the letters are listed in chronological order. Numbers D-5 through D-10 were copied in the same folio leaves.