It is upon record that a battle between two armies was once broken off by an earthquake.

Such an event would be felt like a miracle; but no incident in war, produced by human means, has ever equalled the sublimity of this co-instantaneous pause, and all its circumstances.
About seventy of the ORIENT's crew were saved by the English boats.
Among the many hundreds who perished were the commodore, Casa-Bianca, and his son, a brave boy, only ten years old.

They were seen floating on a shattered mast when the ship blew up.

She had money on board (the plunder of Malta) to the amount of L600,000 sterling.

The masses of burning wreck, which were scattered by the explosion, excited for some moments apprehensions in the English which they had never felt from any other danger.