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Harpers Ferry Free Press
Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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A report from the Patriot brig Bolivar, arrived at St. Barts after a cruise off Cadiz, indicates a French squadron cruising offshore while their army besieges the city, having captured the Castle of St. Roque and maintaining constant bombardment. Accounts dated 29 days prior to August 13.
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BALTIMORE, AUG. 13.
We learn from a gentleman, passenger in the schooner Zion, which arrived here last evening in nine days from St. Barts, that the Patriot brig Bolivar, captain Almeida, had arrived at St. Barts two days before the Zion sailed, in seventeen days from a cruize off Cadiz. He understood from the officers of the Bolivar that a French squadron was cruizing off Cadiz--that the French army was besieging it and had obtained possession of the Castle of St. Roque. They kept up a constant bombardment on the town.
This intelligence brings our accounts to twenty-nine days from Cadiz.
The respectability of our informant induces us to place full reliance on this information. The Bolivar, we presume, is the vessel which boarded the brig Mary and Jane (arrived at Philadelphia) on the day she came out of Gibraltar, as mentioned in her report published on Monday.
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Cadiz
Event Date
Twenty Nine Days From Cadiz
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french army obtained possession of the castle of st. roque; constant bombardment on the town
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The Patriot brig Bolivar, captain Almeida, arrived at St. Barts after a seventeen-day cruise off Cadiz. Officers reported a French squadron cruising off Cadiz, with the French army besieging the city and maintaining constant bombardment after capturing the Castle of St. Roque.