![]() For the service on hand that night the freight between decks had been replaced by thirty carronades of heavy caliber. She looked like a heavy and peaceable merchant-ship but it would not have been wise to trust to that, for she had been built to serve two purposes, – cunning and strength to deceive if possible, to fight if necessary. This corvette entered at the Trinity House under the name of the "Claymore," and, apparently a freight vessel, was in point of fact a man-of-war. The prince of Tour d'Auvergne, of the house of Bouillon, commanded the English fleet, and it was by his order, and for a special and pressing service, that the corvette had been detached. The ship, although it was manned by a French crew, belonged to the English squadron which had been stationed to watch the eastern point of the island. ![]() In Jersey, one evening on the first of June, about an hour before sunset, from the lovely little Bay of Bonnenuit, a corvette set sail in that foggy kind of weather dangerous for navigation, and for that very reason better suited for escape than for pursuit. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.In the spring of 1793, when France, attacked at one and the same time on all her frontiers, experienced the pathetic diversion of the downfall of the Girondists, the following events were taking place in the Channel Islands. ![]() DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. ![]() THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.
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