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English: Grave of Admiral John Benbow. Marble slab inscribed: Here lyeth the Body of John Benbow, Esq., Admiral of the White, a true pattern of English Courage, who lost his life in Defence of his Queene & Country, November the 4th, 1702, In the 52nd year of his age, by a wound in his Legg. Received in an Engagement with Monsr. Du Casse; being Much Lamented.

The church is The Kingston Parish Church, also known as the Parish Church of St Thomas the Apostle, corner of King Street and South Parade, Downtown Kingston., Jamaica.^[1]
Identifier: westindiantaleso00aspi (find matches)
Title: West Indian tales of old
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Aspinall, Algernon Edward, Sir, 1871-1952
Subjects: Legends -- West Indies, British West Indies, British -- History West Indies, British -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Duckworth and Co
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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Governor of that city to release two English vessels, which he was detaining with the object of using them for the purpose of an expedition against the Scotch colony at Darien—a colony founded by a company which had been granted extensive powers by an Act of the Scottish Parliament in 1695 and proved eventually a dismal failure. Benbow then went after the pirates, whom he hunted from pillar to post, spreading consternation in their ranks. Some took refuge under the Danish flag at St. Thomas, while others left West Indian waters altogether, only to return when he sailed again for England in 1700. On his arrival in the Channel, Benbow was now given the command in the Downs, and after holding that appointment for a while, and serving as Vice-Admiral of the Blue, under Sir George Rooke, who afterwards achieved fame by capturing Gibraltar for Queen Anne, he was once again destined to visit the West Indies. War with France was imminent, and there was need of an able commander in the Caribbean. The choice 12
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ADMIRAL BENBOWS TOMB(n the Parish Church, Kingston, Jamaica BENBOW THE BRAVE fell on Benbow; but King William III thinking it ungenerous to send him back so soon to such an unfavourable station, first offered the appointment to other admirals of distinction who, however, preferred the dress and pleasures of London to risking their lives in a tropical climate, and consequently declined. Thereupon the King is alleged to have said : Well then, I find we must spare our beaux and send our honest Benbow. Benbow accordingly hoisted his flag on board the Breda, a vessel of 70 guns, and sailed from Spithead for the West Indies at the end of August 1701, being escorted as far as the Scillies by Sir George Rooke, and then for some days sail to westward of the Azores by Sir John Mundens squadron. He arrived at Barbados on November 3, and finding the Leeward Islands in a good state of defence he proceeded immediately to Jamaica and dropped anchor off Port Royal on December 5. Towards the end of January 1702 Be

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