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Ignatius Sancho (1729 – 1780)


Sometime household servant, later a London grocer, was a great admirer and friend of Laurence Sterne, the author of Tristram Shandy.
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Ignatius Sancho
[this letter concerns the naval duel in which HMS Flora captured the French navy frigate Nymphe] When Capt. Williams had conquered the crew, they found sixty dead upon deck;- the two ships exhibited a scene more like a slaughter-house, than any thing imaginable- These, oh Christians! are the features of war- and thus Most Christian Kings and Defenders of Faith shew their zeal and love for the dying commands of their Divine Master
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