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“Saumarez had been injured, struck in the thigh by a large splinter of wood from one of Orion's spare topmasts. he had been lucky; the same splinter had killed his clerk, Mr Baird, and badly injured Midshipman Charles Miells, a favourite of his aboard ship. the force of the impact knocked Saumarez off his feet and he was dragged beneath the half deck. Saumarez refused to go below with Miells to have his wound seen to and returned to the quarterdeck, though now limping badly.”
― Anthony Sullivan, Man of War: The Fighting Life of Admiral James Saumarez from the American Revolution to the Defeat of Napoleon