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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Portuguese frigate Esprit, returning to Oporto, engaged an 18-gun Algerine corsair in a two-hour battle, capturing it with heavy enemy losses, but the prize was retaken the next day by another corsair; Esprit escaped after sustaining 30 killed and 10 wounded.
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"Since our last arrived at this place, the Esprit, a Portuguese frigate, from a cruize; she is in a very shattered condition, having had an engagement with an Algerine corsair, of eighteen guns, which lasted near two hours, in which the corsair had forty men killed, and eighteen wounded, all her rigging shot away, and so much disabled that she struck to the Portuguese. The next day they fell in with another corsair which retook her, and began firing on the Esprit, but luckily she made her escape; she had thirty men killed and ten wounded."
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Primary Location
Oporto
Event Date
August 10
Outcome
first corsair: 40 killed, 18 wounded, struck and captured but retaken next day. esprit: 30 killed, 10 wounded, escaped.
Event Details
The Portuguese frigate Esprit, returning from a cruise to Oporto, engaged an 18-gun Algerine corsair for nearly two hours, disabling it and forcing it to strike. The next day, another corsair retook the prize and fired on Esprit, which escaped despite damage.