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Updated: June 3, 2025
Hoche's troops waded through the stormy waters of Quiberon bay, and the tricolor was soon displayed upon the walls. The royalists were driven to the extremity of the peninsula. Some, but not many, escaped in English boats, and it was thought that our fleet did not do all that it might have done to retrieve a disaster so injurious to the fame and the influence of England.
General Humbert, who in 1796 had been one of Hoche's officers, did succeed in effecting a landing at Killala Bay, in Mayo; but he and the whole of his force was speedily surrounded, and compelled to surrender; and a month afterward a large squadron, with a more powerful division of troops, under General Hardy, on board, found itself unable to effect a landing, but fell in with a squadron under Sir John Warren, who captured every ship but two; Wolfe Tone, who was on board one of them, being taken prisoner, and only escaping the gallows by suicide.
Hoche's mistress accompanied him, and his carriage was on board 'La Ville d'Orient, taken by the 'Druid. The hussars taken on board that vessel were those who guarded the scaffold at the execution of the unfortunate Lewis they are clothed in scarlet jackets trimmed with gold and fur, and wear each the butcher's steel, on which they whet their knives, to whet their swords with.
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