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it is not usual for the planners and fitters out to be much considered unless
they have had a proportionable part in the execution. It may therefore
be doubted, whether even Admiral Mordinoff, though at the head
of the naval department there, will have any notice taken of him:
and still more, whether Sam will, who, though Mordinoffs
principal counsellor, or rather instructor, acted in that line in no
settled character, but rather as a volunteer. The Marines indeed
of which Same has the command must have been employ'd, I
think in the business. But as he has had no military education
nor experience, I think it not likely they should have sent
him on the business, if there remained any thing for him to do
at Cherson.
It should seem, though it is not expressly said so, that in this last
engagement the Russians were the assistants, as the Turks had because the
first. For the business was done (says the Vienna account) as the Russian
fleet was occupied in taking port before the town of Ochakoff un order to protect
it. Thus there was what they were employing themselves about, and not the
making an attack. The experience the Russians had had of the unskillfulness
of the Turks in the engagement between the Flotillas, emboldened them
to plan an attack upon the fleet itself.
How I do long to see particulars! but our curiosity, I doubt, will in
this respect meet with but very imperfect satisfaction. The Russian accounts
I think have always been very meagre.
I hope you have or will have got your book of Russian Master's at the that we
may over there when I come
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