AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
EXPEDITION
TO
CARTHAGENA, &c.
[Price One Shilling.]
See the Plan of the City and Harbour ofCarthagena, published in the LONDONMAGAZINE for April 1740; which willserve to give the Readers of this Pamphlet aclearer Idea of its Contents.
AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
EXPEDITION
TO
CARTHAGENA,
WITH
Explanatory Notes
AND
OBSERVATIONS.
The Third Edition.
Ubi per socordiam vires, tempus, ingenium defluxere, naturæinfirmitas accusatur: suam quique culpam actores ad negotiatransferunt.
Sallust.
LONDON:
Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in
Pater-noster-Row.
Mdccxliii.
Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been correctedwithout note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies havebeen retained. The footnotes are lettered from A to I, K to T and V toZ. Subsequent footnotes repeat the lettering sequence, beginning with an A.
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AN
ACCOUNT
OF THE
EXPEDITION
TO
CARTHAGENA, &c.
It having been resolved in a generalCouncil of War, held atSpanish Town, to prevent, ifpossible, the French Fleet joining theEnemy before any Expedition shouldbe undertaken by Land: the WolfSloop, Captain Dandridge, was dispatchedup to Port Louis, to observeif the Fleet was in that Port:And on the 22d of January, whichwas the soonest the Fleet could begot ready for the Sea, Sir ChalonerOgle and his Division sailed out of[2]Port Royal Harbour; and two Daysafter Mr. Lestock and his Division;and on the Monday following theAdmiral with the rest of the Squadron(leaving behind him the Falmouthand Litchfield to bring up theTransports;) but the Land Breezefailing, and a great Swell rollingdown, obliged them to anchor atthe Keys (where the Augusta droveashore, and beat off her Rudder,and great part of her Keel.) On the28th the Admiral weighed Anchor,and plied up to Windward, and the31st joined Sir Chaloner Ogle andMr. Lestock with their Divisions offPort Morant, and the Day followingwas joined by the Falmouth,Litchfield, and Transports. Februarythe 7th the Fleet made Cape Tiberoonon the Island Hispaniola, andoff there was joined by the Cumberland,Captain Stewart, from Lisbon,(who had been separated from the[3]Fleet in the Storm the 1st of November)and the next Day the WolfSloop came into the Fleet [A]<