by John Marshall

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by John Marshall Royal Naval Biography — Wilson… (1823)

Lieutenant Wilson immediately hoisted out his small boat, directed the larger one to follow him, and lost no time in boarding the enemy’s vessel, which he succeeded in getting afloat, although greatly annoyed by musketry from the shore. She proved to be the Impregnable of fourteen guns, two of which were long 9-pounders, and, as appeared by her log, she had on board, during the engagement, about sixty men.
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