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Eight of the transports of Sir Hovenden Walker's fleet with eight hundred officers and soldiers were cast away in the river Canada, where upon the rest of the fleet returned to New-England. 9 October 1711.
It is unnecessary, therefore, to dwell on the means taken by Her Majesty's government to remove all reasonable grounds of objection to the exercise of the right of search, and on the care with which the instructions recently delivered to the officers employed in this service have been prepared.
43 5 chasseurs d'Afrique: French light cavalry serving in Algeria; transl. 'Africa cavalry. In 1871 about 11,000 natives of Alsace-Lorraine were granted land in Algeria. Daudet visited Algeria in 1861, before the Alsatians immigrated in large numbers. 43 8 spahis: 'spahis, native cavalry in the French service, commanded by French officers.
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