Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé concerning his action against a larger French fleet on 29 and 30 April, and Sir George Rodney's conduct afterwards, commenting 'there is no truth in the man' [Rodney], and suggesting that Rodney should have engaged the smaller enemy fleet at Tobago before the larger French fleet had appeared.
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I will not presume to say he should have fought the Enemy of Tobago, and dare say he has strong & substantial reasons to give for not doing it--but then my dear General, it would have been better not to have [[underline]] vaunted [[/underline]] so much, the Actions, and public declarations of men should certainly correspond, at least I am strongly of that way of thinking--If he had intended to have given the Enemy battle... agreeably to what he told every one, he could never expect to have done it. to more advantage, where he went to seek them than he certainly might have done; and had he fortunately gone with all his force, so soon as the Intelligence came (that Tobago was attacked) at half past 11 at night on the 26th past [[catchword]] he [[/catchword]]
