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Capital of New Granaʹda, in South America, unsuccessfully attacked in 1747 by Admiral Vernon.
“Wasteful, forth
Walks the dire power of pestilent disease …
Such as, of late, at Carthagena quenched
The British fire. You, gallant Vernon, saw
The miserable scene; you, pitying, saw
To infant-weakness sunk the warrior’s arm.”
Thomson: Summer, 1034–43.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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