. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. oratedupon the badge of the British corps, the allied fleets stood over tothe coast of Barbary, Kooke having first detached Eear-Admiralvan der Dussen, with five sail of the line to Lisbon, and thence toPlymouth, to bring back forces destined for service in Portugal. ^ This number agrees with tlie best accounts; but some writers place the garrisonat 100, and others at 150 men. The Mems. relating to (Byng) Lord Torrington putthe number at 80 only. 2 Authorities for the capture of Gibraltar: Gazettes, 4044, 4045 ; * Mems. relat
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. oratedupon the badge of the British corps, the allied fleets stood over tothe coast of Barbary, Kooke having first detached Eear-Admiralvan der Dussen, with five sail of the line to Lisbon, and thence toPlymouth, to bring back forces destined for service in Portugal. ^ This number agrees with tlie best accounts; but some writers place the garrisonat 100, and others at 150 men. The Mems. relating to (Byng) Lord Torrington putthe number at 80 only. 2 Authorities for the capture of Gibraltar: Gazettes, 4044, 4045 ; * Mems. relat. to(Byng) Lord Torrington, 137-146; and Journ. of Rev. T. Pocock, quoted therein ; DeQuincy, Hist. Milit. iv. 121; Journs. of Callenburgh, Van der Dussen, and Wasse-naer; Letter of Ed. AYhitaker, in Xav. Chron. iv, 383 ; Anns, of Q. Anne, iii. 106 ;Wagenaar, pt. xvii., 225 ; Merc. Hist, et Polit. xxxvii. 339 ; Hist, of the Stuarts, ; Life of Capt. Stephen ^lartin, 75 ; Hist, and Proc. of Ho. vi Lords, vii. 575. 1^ . .. Mil —^ > ^^ 1 1^.. E ^ ■!■ ■-• ■■■I 170i.] THE BATTLE OF VELEZ MALAGA. 397 The ships, after watering at Centa, proceeded to Tetuan, and thence,on August 9th, all of them but twelve steered again for morning the Centurion, which was scouting to the eastward,reported that she could see the enemy in force to windward. Afterthe fleet had been ranged in order of battle, a council of war washeld, and it was determined to lie to the eastward of Gibraltar, andif possible, to re-embark half the Marines who were ashore. TheFrench showed no immediate anxiety to engage, their galleys beingat the time at Malaga, whither they went to fetch them; and, in themeantime, a thousand Marines w^ere brought off from the Rock, andthe twelve ships which had been left watering, rejoined withoutinterruption. On the 10th and 11th, the Allies plied to windward,seeing nothing of the enemys fleet, yet occasionally hearing hissignal guns.
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