Benbow (Admiral)

in an engagement with the French near St. Martha, on the Spanish coast, in 1701, had his legs and thighs shivered into splinters by a chain-shot, but, supported in a wooden frame, he remained on the quarter-deck till morning, when Du Casse bore away. Almeyʹda, the Portuguese governor of India, in his engagement with the united fleet of Cambayʹa and Egypt, had his legs and thighs shattered in a similar manner; but, instead of retreating, had himself bound to the ship’s mast, where he “waved his sword to cheer on the combatants,” till he died from loss of blood. (See CynÆgeros, Jaafer, etc.)