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- ↑ James, Naval History, iv. 66–74
- ↑ Troude, Batailles Navales, iii. 425–6
- ↑ Chevalier, Hist. de la Marine Française, iii. 179
- ↑ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : John Knox Laughton (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 139–140.
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