It was he who, with six rowing-boats, cut out the 44-gun frigate Hermione from under the muzzles of two hundred shore-guns in the harbour of Puerto Cabello. No finer action was done in the whole war.
C'est lui qui, avec six bateaux à rames, a coupé la retraite à la frégate l_Hermione_ sous la gueule de deux cents canons de côte dans le port de Puerto Caballo.