X: 1
T:Sir Sydney's Smiths Escape. EHo.229
A:England; East Yorkshire
M:C|
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
B:Edward Holmes MS, c1846, Beverley, Yorkshire.
N:During the French Revolutionary Wars, Sydney Smith specialised in inshore
N: operations, and on 19 April 1796, he was captured while attempting
N:to cut out a French ship in Le Havre. Instead of exchanging him as was the
N:custom, Smith was taken to the Temple prison in Paris to be charged with
N:arson for his burning of the fleet at Toulon. He was held in Paris for two years,
N:despite a number of efforts to exchange him and frequent contacts with both
N:French Royalists and British agents. Eventually in 1798, he was helped to
N:escape by the Royalists, who pretended to be taking him to another prison.
N:Instead, they brought him to Le Havre, where he boarded an open fishing boat
N:and was picked up on 5 May by HMS Argo on patrol in the English Channel,
N: arriving in London on 8 May 1798. (Wickipedia)
N:NB1 = unmarked triplet in MS.
O:
Z:Village Music Project 2018, Jake Wade. Beverley, East Yorks
F:
http://www.cpartington.plus.com/Links/HolmesE/Holmes%20-Wade.abc
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