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into a fountain. The song chronicles an engagement in the English Channel on 17 June 1778 between the
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in 1905 a version of this song became the third movement.
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The melody to the song has been wrongly attributed to
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Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy
Roud
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Prince Hoare
comic opera
librettist
William Shield
Turlough O'Carolan
frigate
Royal Navy
HMS Arethusa
French Navy
Greek mythology
nymph
Arethusa
Artemis
Belle Poule
Sir Henry Wood

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