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Title: West Indian tales of old
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon Edward, Sir, 1871-1952
Subjects: Legends -- West Indies, British West Indies, British -- History West Indies, British -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Duckworth and Co
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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ision,as events turned out, deprived them of the opportunityof testing conclusions with the Spaniards. Throughoutthe night, the Alarm, the Favourite and the Victorieusepatrolled the Bocas to keep any of the enemy fromleaving the Gulf, while the remainder of the fleet formedup in a half circle round Chaguaramas Bay in order toprevent the escape of the Spanish fleet. A few hours before dawn on the morning ofFebruary 17 the excited crowds which had waitedthroughout the night on the beach at Port of Spainsaw an ominous glare in the sky beyond the headland ofPunta Gorda that hid the rival fleets from their view.It was plain that some disaster had overtaken one of theships. A series of explosions then occurred, and itseemed evident that a fierce battle was in progress;the people were very soon panic-stricken on learning fromApodaca, who reached the town soon after 9 oclock, thatall the proud Spanish ships except one—the San Damaso—had been destroyed without the English firing a shot.118
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ft > H -a = be P H fl O fc e3 a o o !=< u - ■— 1 - CHAGUARAMAS BAY, TRINIDAD Overnight Apodaca, realising the hopelessness of hisposition, had called his captains together to a council ofwar, and they decided to destroy their vessels by firerather than allow them to be captured by the English.In the small hours of the morning, Apodaca himself setthe cowardly example, strewing resin and other com-bustibles on the deck of his flagship. The ships, which burned with great fury, were aban-doned and sank at their moorings, the San Damasoalone being saved through the courage of the sailors ofthe Bellona and the Invincible, who succeeded in extin-guishing the flames and making the vessel a prize. Having silenced the forts on Gaspar Grande, a pro-ceeding which did not require any great expenditure ofpowder and shot, Abercromby decided to make animmediate advance upon Port of Spain, and before noona landing was effected at Murucapo, on what was then asugar estate b

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