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did not join them until after the exit from Dardanelles was made. John Duckworth, who commanded the British, was under orders to bombard Constantinople and capture the Ottoman fleet.

Background

In anticipation of a war between Russia and the Turkish Empire, Britain had sent Sir Thomas Louis from Cadiz on 2 November 1806 into the Mediterranean Sea. He reached Tenedos,

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