by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Lyons, Edmund (1823)
“ The sun was now rising, and I humbly flatter myself, the momentary gratification the enemy may have felt by our leaving the launch, must have vanished when he beheld a small boat bearing away his colours, a public and undeniable proof of the few men who attacked him, amounting to only thirty-five, including officers. ”
by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Lyons, Edmund (1823)
“ Captain Lyons married, July 18, 1814, Augusta, second daughter of the late Captain Josias Rogers, who commanded the Quebec frigate, at the capture of the French West Indian islands, in 1794, and was cut off in the midst of a gallant and prosperous career, to the infinite sorrow of his patron, Admiral Sir John Jervis, who pronounced him to have “a mind fertile in resources, a clear head, and a gallant heart.” Mrs. Lyons is a niece to the late Rear-Admiral Thomas Rogers, who died suddenly in her arms, at Tours, in France, Sept. ”
by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Lyons, Edmund (1823)
“ Messrs. Mockler, Hay, Blair, and Austen, mates; and Messrs. de Saumarez, Kennedy, Hawkins, and Dor, midshipmen, landed with a party of seamen and commenced making the batteries, under the direction of the French officers of engineers and artillery. “At nine o’clock on the 22d, the battery opened its fire on Morca Castle, and in a few hours silenced the guns opposed to it; but as the army advanced in their approaches to the breaching battery, the castle opened fresh guns, which rendered it necessary for the marine battery to fire at intervals, for eight days and nights. ”
