The 2nd of August eighteen hundered and one
We saild with Lord Nelson for the port of Bolounge
To cut out some shipping which proved all in vain
For to our great misfortune they were all moord with chain.
"The Battle of Boulogne," Greig-Duncan FS Coll, #145.
(Events actually occured 8/15/1801)
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