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Owing to an imperfect appreciation of the leewardly current which exists in those seas, or to very bad management of some sort, the squadron, under the Marquis, fell to lee- ward of its port. Three weeks were lost in beating to windward. The Bargoyne line-of- battle ship, getting too near the shore in the night, struck on a rock and was lost with two hundred of her crew. The transports were lost sight of to leeward, and not being able to iET. 35. ] LIFE OF PAUL JONES. 119 work up, bore away for... St. Domingo. On the 18th of February, 1783, the Triomphant arrived in Porto Cabello, where the Augiiste and the Pluton were lying. The rest of the ships of war soon after got in. Nothing had been heard of the Spanish ships from Havana, under Solano ; nor of the combined fleet un- der D'Estaing, although the Marquis was him- self nearly two months behind the period fixed for the rendezvous. The fleet continued until the month of April to await the expected junction, without any news of the causes that had prevented it.
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