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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Ship Triumph arrives from Jamaica with news that Col. Despard retook Black River and other British settlements on the Musquito shore from Spaniards on September 1 via capitulation, capturing over 780 officers and men. Jamaica sloop seizes polacre with 130 Spanish troops.
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Yesterday arrived the ship Triumph, Capt. Stout, of 22 guns, in 23 days from Jamaica, by whom we learn, that on the 22d of September, Major O'Brien arrived at Jamaica, in his Majesty's armed schooner the Post Boy, express from Black River, on the Musquito shore, with dispatches from Col. Despard, intimating the retaking that post and the other principal British settlements from the Spaniards, on the first of September, by capitulation. The prisoners secured were one Colonel, one Lieut. Colonel, one Major, ten Captains, 20 Subalterns, and 750 rank and file. On the same day a polacre was taken by the Jamaica sloop, with 130 Spanish troops, stores, &c.
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Black River, Musquito Shore
Event Date
First Of September
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prisoners secured: one colonel, one lieut. colonel, one major, ten captains, 20 subalterns, and 750 rank and file; polacre taken with 130 spanish troops, stores
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Major O'Brien arrived at Jamaica on September 22 with dispatches from Col. Despard reporting the retaking of Black River and other principal British settlements on the Musquito shore from the Spaniards on September 1 by capitulation. On the same day, the Jamaica sloop captured a polacre with 130 Spanish troops and stores.