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Reports arrival of the American ship Leander armed with about twenty large carronades...

Catalogue reference: CO 101/43/40

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This record is about the Reports arrival of the American ship Leander armed with about twenty large carronades... dating from 1806 May 29 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Grenada, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 101/43/40
Date
1806 May 29
Description

Reports arrival of the American ship Leander armed with about twenty large carronades ... and over 100 men, arrived in Grenada with General Miranda; states 'it was groundless and untrue, that he engaged, or ever intended to engage a single Black of St Domingo - this is a falsehood fabricated by the Spanish Government to injure his cause.'

Frederick Maitland, Grenada, Folios 136 - 137.

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