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The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser
Washington, District Of Columbia
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In New-York on Nov. 22, a rumor circulated at the Coffee House from a private letter claiming Lord Nelson engaged the combined French and Spanish fleet off Cadiz, capturing 17 vessels, destroying the rest, and dying from wounds. The report's authenticity is doubted.
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It was a current report yesterday at the Coffee House (but we have not been able to trace it to its origin, or to give any well founded opinion on its authenticity) that a private letter had been received in this city from the eastward, mentioning that lord Nelson had brought the combined fleet to an engagement off Cadiz, which was desperately fought on both sides, and terminated in the capture of 17 sail of French and Spanish vessels, and in the destruction or disability of the remainder, and that lord Nelson, after being thrice taken to the cockpit to have his wounds dressed, received a shot in his breast as he sat in his chair on the quarter deck directing the engagement, and was killed. Such is the substance of the report to which we cannot at present attach the smallest degree of credit.
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New York
Event Date
Nov. 22
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capture of 17 sail of french and spanish vessels, destruction or disability of the remainder, lord nelson killed
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A current report at the Coffee House from a private letter received in the city mentioned that lord Nelson brought the combined fleet to an engagement off Cadiz, desperately fought on both sides, with lord Nelson thrice wounded and killed by a shot to the breast while directing from the quarter deck.