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and oil store houses, and succeeded most perfectly : the hemp magazine was included in this blaze. It being nearly calm was unfavorable to the spreading of the flames, but two hundred and fifty barrels of tar, divided among the deals and other timber, insured the rapid ignition of the whole quarter which Lieutenant Tupper had undertaken.
From James' Naval History. Third Edition.
After describing minutely the conflagration at Toulon, &c, the author adds : —
As well as we can collect from the official accounts published on the subject, the following were the British naval officers who ac- companied Sir Sidney Smith in his perilous undertaking : Captains C. Hare and W. Edge, Lieutenants C. Tupper, John Gore, — (and several others whose names follow.) — Vol. I, page 114.
At length on the 21st May, 1794, after a siege of thirty-seven and a negociation of four days, the town and citadel of Bastia, with the several posts upon the neighbouring heights, surrendered on terms highly honorable to the besieged, whose bravery in holding out so long excited the admiration of the conquerors.
The possession of this important post was accomplished with the slight loss to the army of seven privates killed and dead of their wounds, two captains and nineteen privates wounded, and six pri- vates missing ; and to the navy, of one lieutenant (Carre Tupper, of the Victory,) and six seamen killed, and one lieutenant (G. Andrews, of the Agamemnon,) and twelve men wounded. — Ibid, page 272.
Lieutenant Tupper was buried in a sequestered spot under the walls of Bastia, with this epitaph : —
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
CARRE TUPPER, ESQ.
LIEUTENANT OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIP
VICTORY.
HE WAS KILLED BY A MUSKET BALL
IN BRAVELY ATTEMPTING TO LAND,
DURING THE SIEGE OF BASTIA,
ON THE 24th APRIL, 1794,
AGED TWENTY -NINE YEARS.
HIS ASSOCIATES IN ARMS
DEEPLY REGRETTED AN EVENT
WHICH DEPRIVED THEM OF
AN INTREPID, EXCELLENT OFFICER,
A WORTHY, AMIABLE MAN.
HE WAS BORN THE 11th FEBRUARY, 1765.
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