The Last Fight of the Revenge

Chapter 8: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A detailed narrative reconstructs a single ship’s desperate engagement with a far larger enemy force, tracing the course of a prolonged night battle, the damage and losses sustained, and the vessel’s final fate. The text interleaves eyewitness-like description with contemporary tributes and assessments, profiling the ship and its commander while examining themes of honour, courage, and sacrifice at sea. Extended reflection contrasts moral resolve with material superiority in naval conflict. Plates, facsimiles, and an introductory essay frame the account and give it both documentary and elegiac dimensions, presenting the episode as an exemplar of seafaring valour and its enduring memory.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

The larger illustrations have been positioned at the tops of the pages on which they originally appeared, even when that placed them in the middle of sentences or paragraphs. This was done to simulate the appearance of the original book: every page contained at least one illustration at the top or bottom, while many paragraphs and some sentences were more than one page in length.

The black-and-white illustrations were printed with thick, coarse lines and irregular borders. That appearance has been retained in this eBook.