The position of the Rock--State of defence--Food-supply--Rodney brings relief--Fire-ships sent in--A convoy in a fog--Heavy guns bombard the town--Watching the cannon-ball--Catalina gets no gift--One against fourteen--Red-hot shot save the day--Lord Howe to the rescue 17-27 Jaffa stormed by Napoleon--Sir Sidney Smith hurries to Acre--Takes a convoy--How the French procured cannon-balls--The Turks fear the mines--A noisy sortie--Fourteen assaults--A Damascus blade--Seventy shells explode--Napoleon nearly killed--The siege raised--A painful retreat 28-36…
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