I have just posted on my journal page what might be an interesting companion piece to Anteros' post about the ballads of the Amazon action in 1797. It is the account that chronicles over three pages the course of the action which edward Pellew prepared to submit with his correspondence on the subject to the Admiralty and which is now in the National Archives ADM 1 series of captain's letters.
For further details see the article under the cut on my journal page.Which is at
nodbear This notice cross posted from Following Sea.