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Tale taken from English Admiralty records. An Irish captain kills four Frenchmen in a duel on the island of Mauritius and is court-martialled for this infraction of the law. He vowed to kill the officers if they dismissed him from the navy, and does - thus losing five good men from the naval forces. (PB)
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