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A28805 An exact and faithful account of the late bloody engagement between Captain Booth, commander of the Adventure and Hodge Allii captian of the Two lions and crown of Algier, otherwise called the Great Genoese ... on the 16th and 17th of September 1681, as it was communicated from the said captain to his friend at Cadiz : and thence by letter of the 18th of October, New-Stile, communicated to his friend in London. Booth, William, Sir, d. 1703. 1681 (1681) Wing B3739; ESTC R16334 2,389 1

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