The Royal Navy a History From the Earliest Times to Present volume 4
The Royal Navy a History From the Earliest Times to Present volume 4
W Laird William Laird Clowes
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In consequence, the siege was raised on the night of May 20th, the enemy leaving behind him 23 siege guns, minus their carriages, and regaining El Arich on June 2nd, having suffered enormous loss. The British, apart from the Turkish, loss in the fighting was not very serious, as it amounted ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, G. C'. B. (From Ridley a engraving, executed ire 1800, iplien Sir William ii^aa a Captain. ) to but 22 killed, 66 wounded, 4 drowned, and 82 taken prisoners ; but a lamentab...le catastrophe, caused on May 14th by a mishap to some shells in the Theseus, added 40 killed and drowned and 47 wounded to the total. By this accident the gallant Captain Ealph Willett Miller, ^ and Midshipmen Charles James Webb and James Morrison Bigges Forbes, perished. The ship herself narrowly escaped destruction. Among the officers killed by the enemy were ^ Born Jan. 24th, 1762: Commander, 1794; Captain, 1796. He commanded a ship ■both at St. Vincent, where he was Nelson's Captain, and at the Kile.
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