Contents

Dramatis personae

1 Admiral Pellew’s strategy

2 A petition from Bombay

3 General Macdowall’s grievance

4 ‘Sir Henry Gwillim embarks … and the Devil go with him’

5 ‘Not heard of again’

6 ‘A cabal in the maintop’

7 Justice at the Cape

8 ‘One of the most wicked places in the Universe’

9 Sir George Barlow draws his sword

10 ‘A perfect hurricane’

11 ‘The most terrible of deaths’

12 Pellew’s revenge

PART II: CONQUEST

13 Return to Ile de France

14 ‘A mongrel kind of gentleman’

15 ‘The enterprizing Captain Corbet’

16 Battle on Bourbon

17 Commodore Hamelin’s cruise

18 Christmas at the India House

19 The Battle of Grand Port

20 ‘For shame, hoist the Colours again!’

21 A close run thing

Acknowledgements

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