Betrayal

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‘The repossession of Buenos Aires has been stained with such deliberate acts of treachery and perfidy as are not to be instanced in the annals of history’

Commodore Sir Home Riggs Popham,

HMS Diadem, Rio de la Plata, 1806

Dramatis Personae

(* Indicates fictitious character)

*Thomas Kydd, captain of L’Aurore

*Nicholas Renzi, his friend and confidential secretary

L’Aurore, ship’s company

*Gilbey, first lieutenant

*Curzon, second lieutenant

*Bowden, third lieutenant

*Clinton, lieutenant of marines

*Owen, purser

*Oakley, boatswain

*Kendall, sailing master

*Searle, boy volunteer

*Dodd, marine sergeant

*Poulden, coxswain

*Stirk, gunner’s mate

*Collas, carpenter’s mate

*Legge, carpenter

*Doud, seaman

*Pearse, master’s mate

*Cumby, boatswain’s mate

*Wong, seaman

*Saxton, signal master’s mate

*Tysoe, Kydd’s valet

*Calloway, midshipman

Officers, other ships

Commodore Home Popham

Lieutenant Davies, Diadem

Captain Downman, Diadem

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