2-495-241 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Intrepid behaviour of Captain Charles Napier, 15 April 1809 (c1857). Napier, commanding the 18 gun brig HMS 'Recruit', fighting the much larger 74 gun French ship of the line 'Hautpoult' in the Caribbean. After a three day running battle 'Recruit' succeeded in capturing the French vessel. From England's Battles by Sea and Land, volume III, by Lieutenant Colonel William Freke Williams, published by the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1857.