It is notable in that it was the occasion on which a Victoria Cross was awarded, to seaman Joseph Trewavas.
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That left six men in a four-oared boat (including Joseph Trewavas), one rifle, ten rounds of ammunition, and a cutlass apiece to face two hundred enemy on shore behind heaps of coal.
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