3-021-170 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

H.M S. Bulldog in conflict with the flotilla and forts at Cape Haytien, on the coast of Hayti, 1865. Engraving from a sketch by Dr. E. J. Moss of the Bulldog, '...the British steam-sloop Bulldog, carrying six guns, under the command of Captain Charles Wake, got into a dispute with the negro chief Sulnave, the head of the insurrectionary faction in the Republic of Hayti; and...had a regular battle with the forts and flotilla of gun-boats in the harbour; the result being that, after silencing the forts and sinking two of the enemy's vessels, the Bulldog accidentally got aground, and was burned and abandoned by Captain Wake, to prevent her becoming their prey. Three of our men were killed and six were severely wounded...the Bulldog was seen steaming into the harbour, and, on passing Fort Picoli, was fired into. The Bulldog at once answered this fire with a broadside, dismantled all the guns on that fort, steamed further in, smashed up another small fort, and sent a shell into the arsenal, blowing it up. The Voldrogne, a vessel which had been taken by the rebels, had the impudence to fire at the Bulldog. One shot, in return, was quite enough to settle her;...she reared on her stern and went to the bottom in about fifteen fathoms'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.