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PELLY. (English)
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Commander, 1844. (English)
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Capt. Chas. Pelly was wounded, when a Lieutenant, in a sanguinary attack, made in Aug. 1801, on the French invasion flotilla. In March, 1804, at which time he commanded the Beaver 14, he served with the boats of that vessel and the Scorpion 18, under Capt. Geo. Nicholas Hardinge, at the cutting out, in the Vlie passage, after a most spirited and determined conflict, of the Dutch brig Atalante of 16 long 12-pounders and 76 men. When Captain of the Bucephalus 36, he co-operated in the reduction of the island of Java in 1811, and displayed much gallantry in pursuing for several days the French 40-gun frigates Nymphe and Méduse. (English)
