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the forest treeline, the hostiles had been firing their muskets and rifles at the men in the fort for quite sometime. It came to a head when the
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insistence that they be made to carry 24 guns, despite their dimensions making them better suited to carrying 20 guns. They were criticized for being slow, due in part to their full after body and often being overloaded, a practice typical of vessels in a navy during peace time.
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had a complement of 190 officers and seamen with an armament of 20 guns and saw service protecting
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to survey the rivers, inlets, and bars along that stretch of the
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