Excerpt from Authentic Papers Relating to the Expedition Against Carthagena: Being the Resolutions of the Councilis of War; Both of Sea and Land-Officers Respectively, at Sea and on Shore
The fame Day [had a Report from my Eu gineer Captain Knowles, of what Obfervations he had made of the new Works the Enemy had been erecting near the Entrance of their Harbour, for my forming my Difpolition of Attack, hav ing dit'patch'd him and Capt. Laws over before me for that Purpofe. And, I immediately dif patch'd him away again to Leeward, with Capt. Lows, Capt. Cooper, and Capt. Rentone, to found all without Terra Bomber, and the Entrance into the Harbour, to know certainly how near our Ships could be brought to the Shore, and if we could find Anchorage for our large Fleet.
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