A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
Threadmarks: Chapter 22: Live (somewhat) Free or Die, Victor Hughes and the Sister Republics of the Antilles
...with small boats, but quickly became more ambitious: they recaptured French Lucia, and went on, in 1795, to capture the British colony of Antigua* - an immense propaganda triumph, with Hughes personally making the voyage to the island (narrowly, it must be said, escaping a British frigate...