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 BARÈRE

ON THE HEROISM OF THE "VENGEUR'S" SAILORS

(1794)

Committee has instructed me to make known to the Convention certain sublime acts which can not be ignored either by it or by the French people.

Since the sea became a field of carnage and war has dyed the waves with blood, the annals of Europe have known no combat so stubborn, no valor so sustained, and no action so terrible, so murderous, as that of the 13th Prairial, when