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Description: The engagement of Captain Sir Murray Maxwell in HMS Alceste, 1816, with the Chinese fortresses on the Bocca Tigris, both of which he immediately silenced. Image extracted from a Narrative of a Voyage, in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, along the coast of Corea ... to the island of Lewchew, by MACLEOD, John - Surgeon, R.N.[1]
Title: Alceste at Bogue
Credit: http://prints.rmg.co.uk/art/506189/the-engagement-of-capt-sir-murray-maxwell-in-hm-ship-the-alceste
Author: Dubourg (engraver)(1838), McLeod (artist)(1820)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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