Captain Gustavus Conyngham; a Sketch of the Services He Rendered to the Cause of American Independence;
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Hodge and Allen were required to give bond to the Admiralty that the cutter would not carry on privateering, but they had not taken these Frenchmen seriously. Conyngham had received from the Commissioners another commission, dated May 2, 1777, " as captain and commander of the armed vessel or cutter called the ' Revenge.' " He boarded the " Greyhound" as she came out in the roadstead, changed her name to " Revenge," and put out to sea. Her coming out was signalled to the British fleet in the of...fing by a vessel under disguise at the wharves of Dunkirk, and she was pursued and fired upon, but succeeded in making her escape. The " Revenge" was a little larger and swifter than the " Surprise." When she went to sea she had on board fourteen carriage- and twenty-two swivel-guns, and a crew of one hundred and six men, sixty-six of whom were Frenchmen. By his written sailing orders Conyngham was in- structed to proceed directly to America as bearer of dispatches, and was not to molest British shipping un- less he was attacked ; but the verbal instructions he received from Mr.
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