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"Here it was," said the Captain, pointing out the spot on the quarter- deck below the poop, close to a hatchway, and marked by a copper plate let into the planking, bearing a short inscription commemorating the fact, "that Nelson was standing when that villainous marksman in the Redoutable's mizzen-top hit him, catching sight of the medals on his breast; for, he would stick 'em on, in spite of the advice of Hardy, who was his flag-captain, you know."
Besides the heavy fire of great guns and musketry she was enduring from other ships, she received the shot of the Redoutable's main-deck guns, and also constant discharges of musketry from the three tops of that ship.
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