Skip to contentAn account of the arraignments and tryals of Col. Richard Kirkby, Capt. John Constable, Capt. Cooper Wade, Capt. Samuel Vincent, and Capt. Christopher Fogg, on a complaint exhibited by the judge-advocate on behalf of Her Majesty, at a court-martial held on board the ship Breda in Port-Royal harbour in Jamaica in America, the 8th, 9th, 10th, and 12th days of October, 1702. : For cowardice, neglect of duty, breach of orders, and other crimes, committed by them in a fight at sea, commenced the 19th of August, 1702. off of St. Martha, in the latitude of ten degrees north, near the main-land of America, between the Honourable John Benbow Esq;, and Admiral Du Casse with four French ships of war. For which, Col. Kirkby and Capt. Wade were sentenc'd to be shot to death | Collections | The Huntington