Details
Admirals Cochrane (Speedy) and Pulling (Kangaroo) destroy Spanish convoy
lengthy action against twelve sail and five armed vessels at anchor under the battery at Oropeso bay ...by seven the tower was silenced. We were annoyed by musquetry in different directions till midnight...The day before, in an attempt to blow up the tower at Almenara, Lord COCHRANE was a little singed... -- 16in. (38cm.) col space, in a complete issue of The Edinburgh advertiser, 20 October 1801
lengthy action against twelve sail and five armed vessels at anchor under the battery at Oropeso bay ...by seven the tower was silenced. We were annoyed by musquetry in different directions till midnight...The day before, in an attempt to blow up the tower at Almenara, Lord COCHRANE was a little singed... -- 16in. (38cm.) col space, in a complete issue of The Edinburgh advertiser, 20 October 1801