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Saturday 7 October 2017

French troops captured Spanish ships of the line and frigate at Cartagena, Spain according to the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Review, vol. 1, 1810

An item reported that French troops entered Murcia, Spain on 23rd April 1810 followed the next day by troops marching to Cartagena. Colonel Roche took the Spanish 2-120 gun ships of the line including the 120 guns San Carlos and Ferdinand VII, 2-74 gun ships of the line and a frigate out of the harbour.