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On August 23 there sailed into this port the mail frigate Patagon, which left La Corufia at the beginning of July. Its Captain, Don Joef Teodoro Perez, told me that on the night of August 19th, about ten-thirty, he encountered a British warship near the point called Hicacos on the coast of this island, which, after inquiring if it was a Spanish mail ship, ordered it to haul sail and stay within...
Date: 3 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I have learned from the Royal Order Your Excellency transmitted, dated August 6, that the King has approved the answer I gave to the Governor of Louisiana, following his request to dispatch a War Frigate to the Mississippi River in order to maintain respect in those shores, and expressing His Majesty's will that amid the strict neutrality he enjoins be observed in the war of the English with...
Date: 26 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7