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BRITAIN'S BULWARKS. A CALENDAR OF ViCTORY. •JULY 26TH, 1806. A NOTABLE CAPTURE.—In tho Java SEAS tl1;s day the British 32-gun frigate Grey- hound, Captain E. Eiphinstone, and the 18- gnn brig Harrier, Captain T. Troubridge, engaged the Dutch 36-^un frigate Pallas, thj armed ships Vittoria and Batavia, and the 14-gun corvette William. The action was smartly f«;ught. and ill the end the Pallas, Vittoria and j "teavia hauled down their colours, the William alone escaping. The British loss was one ki led and 11 wounded Uie Dutch, 13 killed and 39 wounded. JULY 27TH, 1778. BATTM: OFF USHANT.—An action was this day fought <-ff Ushant between the English fket, under Admiral Keppel, consisting of twency-on sail of the fine, three frigates, two armed clitters, and one tire-ship and the French fi ioc, under Count D'Orvilliors, consisting of thirty-two sail, five frigates, and five gondolas The action was indecisiv*, i. eacli side claiming the victory. The British loss 133 killed and 373 wounded that of the French, J63 killed and 519 wounded, JULY 27TH, 1811. CAPTURE OF A CO;voy.The boats of the ctlve, friate, under Lieutenant James t v, re detached to the attack of a convoy of 28 vessels sheltered in a creek in the Adriatic, They were protected by three gunboats and 300 niusketrymen. The small arm men and Marines first landed and with a rush obtained possession of a hill com- manding the creek. They then descended, and fired a couple of volleys at ti Le guiibotts, which were gallantly boarded and captured j by the other men of the attacking forct. After this the vessels were taken possession of, 10 being destroyed and 18 brought off, the entire enterprise having been effected with no more seiious loss than four men wounded. JULY 28TH, 1652. AN HONOURABLE i)EFFAT. — A squadron of three small ships of war ami a tire-ship, under the command of Capt Richard Bodiey, this day, in the Mediterranean, most- gal- lantly engaged a Dutch fleet of eight large vessels. One of them was actually boarded and captured by the crew of the Phoenis, but the latter Ixing then almost deserted, was herself bearded and taken by another Dutch ship, and the prize was also retaken. At length Captain Bodiey, who had 100 killed and wounded on board, his ship, bore away without further molestation from the Dutch ships. A more honourable defeat, s;iys Allen, in his Battles of the British ]Navy," is scarcely on record. It is only necessary to add that the Phoenix was re- captured four months later. JI LY 28TH, 177. CAPTAIN RODMAN'S SUCCESS —ON this day Captain Rodman, in the Viper, sloop, with a dogger and privateer in company, stood into Sediere Bay for the purpose of destroying lar^e lleet of coasters. Having silenced the bnttery he landed with hismeu, spiked the U:HJ, destroyed the battery, and then burnt 28 of the enemy's vessels. Two days later he joined the Admiral with five captured coasters and a Spanish privateer. Aumiral Warren thought so highly of this exploit that he at once promoted him to post rank, and gave him the command or the Greyhound, frigate. JrLY 28TH, 1803. CAPTURE ('J<' ITALIAN (J CNBOATS.—The boats of the 74-gun ship Excellent, covered by the Acoril and Bustard, sloops, entered, under a heavy fire, the port of Duill, near Trieste, and while Captain R. Cunnnins, of the Marines, landed with a small party to dislodge the enemy from the rocky pre- cipicis round he pert, Lieut. with the remainder of the attacking force, gallantly b.)atle 1 and captured six Italian gunboats, which, with ten laden coasting- vessels, were brought out with no greater loss than eight men wounded. JULY 29TH, 1782. THE SA"TA MAKGAKTTTA AND AXAZONE.— A very gallant frigate action was fought this day o If the mouth of the Chesaneake,between the British 36-gun frigate Santa Maro-aritta, Captain E. Walter, and the French 36-gun frigate Amazone. The latter, having been elllJCeJ away from a Frenoh squadron, was attacked so fiercely and with sueli determina- tion that at the end of an hour and a quarter she surrendered with a hiss (tt 70 killed and 80 wounded out of :;l' complement of uui. 1 Tiie British frigate, whose complement was 255, had 5 killed and 17 wounded. The Am;izooe,hav-ingiosther main and rnizen- tnas*"s, had to be towed, and this gave the French squadron a chance of coming up. This ;hey did so quickly that the prize had to be ibruidynal. JULY 29TH, 1811. THE Al TArx ON FORr MARTIACK.-—Few more daring episodes are related in this calen dar than the attack and capture this day of Fori Marrack. in Java. The for,, mounted 54 pieces of cannon, and was garrisoned by 130 Dutch soldiers, wdiiie a. battalion of Dutch troops was stationed at a barracks half a mile off. 60 strong was the position that a. night attack with 450 men was deemed too hazardous, and yet on this day it was actually captured by two boats' crews, con- j sisting (if 35 officers and men. The leader in this heroic enterprise was Lieutenant Edmund Lyons, of the Mindan, who had been sent fro land some prisoners at Batavia, and on his return conceived the bold plan of att;icki".g the fort wi'h his little party, iiie boats were beached right under the guns, Mil though the alarm had been given, the lower battery was carried in a very few minutes. 'J he upper battery was ct, in similar gallant style, and. having reached the summit of the hili, Lieutenant Lyons, at the head of his handful of men, charged the Dutch garrison, crying out that he had 400 men, an d would give no quarter. Upon this the Juutch, panic-stricken, fled, and the fort was captured. A Ere was, however, soon opened upon it from a battery, and the Dutch troops formal up for the purpose of making a grand assault. As the shots from the battery kept striking the gate, it was thrown open, and two guns, loaded with imi-ket balls, placed near the entrance. In a few minutes the Dutch troops came oa with a rush, but when within ten yards of the gate the two guns were fired with terrible effect. and the whole cf t!13 troops retreated in great disorder. Then the guns were spiked and the fjrb destroyed, and at break of day the heroic band quitted the scene of their triumph, leaving the British ensign floating on the flagstaff. JULY 30TH, 1667. A GALLANT CKEW-—The Elizabeth, frigate, Captain llenry Dawes, this day gailently engaged two Danish men-of-war ot 40 gUlls each. Captain Dawes was killed, ana the lieutenant being desperately wounded, the command fell on the master. He also being killed, the vessel was left in charge of the gunner, who, with the remainder of the crew, continued the action, and carried the vessel safely into port. J rrLY OIHT, 1801. A BRIG BEATS A FKIGATE —OffSantander, this day, the British 18-gun brig sloop Sylph, Captain Charles Dashwood, fought a gallant action for ever an hour and a quarter with a vessel supposed to be the 40- gun frigate Artemise, which on the following day bore up for the land. On September 28th the Sylph, singularly enough, fell in with the same frigate off Cape PUlas, and again beat her off. Mr Marshall, in his history, states that the French captain was tried oy court-martial and shot for his con- duct on this occasion, but Mr James doubts the truth of the story, and is uncertain as to the frigate's identity. JULY 31ST, 1653. A CROWDING VICTORY.—On this day the English Fleet gained their crowning victory over the Dutch. The battle, which took place on a Sunday, lasted eight hours, at the end of which the Dutch fled in dire confu- sion, their famous Admiral, Van Tromp, having been killed, twenty-six of their ships burnt or sunk, and five thousand men killed. The English lost but two ships and five hundred men.

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