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the guns of the castle, within a semicircle of 

 fourteen gun-boats, and a boom made of 

 spars chained together. The coolness and 

 intrepidity with which this was effected, at 

 midnight on the 5th of November, were per- 

 haps never surpassed : the frigate was most 

 gallantly captured, and was steered trium- 

 phantly out of the harbour, under the fire 

 of the whole of the north face of the castle. 

 The Spaniards, in this action, had upwards 

 of one hundred and twenty men killed and 

 wounded ; the Chilians, eleven killed and 

 thirty wounded. Lord Cochrane thus ob- 

 tained an ascendancy upon the coast, which 

 the Spaniards did not afterwards venture to 

 dispute. 



On land. Colonel Arenales was sent from 

 Pisco, with one thousand men, to proceed 

 by a circuitous route round Lima, chiefly 

 for the purpose of rousing the inhabitants in 

 the cause of independence. In his march he 

 met with, and totally defeated, a strong 



