In the north transept of Westminster Abbey, there is a memorial by Joseph Nollekens to three British captains killed at the Battle of the Saintes. It is hard to imagine that many visitors notice it, but when the news of the battle reached London from the West Indies in May 1782, it inspired the same kind of hysteria that 120 years later would greet the relief of Mafeking.
David Crane
Too young to die
The gallant captain killed at the Battle of the Saintes is the main subject of David Rutland’s Resolution

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