Yes it is bad, and you will see what happened. He started the scuffle, which was good thing you know, if you were on board the Trinity. Three ships we shot by port and starboard. From the first moments the wounded were falling like flies, and the same commander received a severe contusion on the leg, and then a astillazo head which caused him great harm. But do you think you chickened out, or that he walked with ointments or patches? Who! He remained in the palace as usual, but people very dear to him by his side fell to rise no more. Alcalá Galiano commanded maneuver and artillery as if we had been doing the salute in front of a square. A little Balita of the telescope led him, and this made him smile. I still think I’m seeing. The blood of the wounds stained the uniform and hands, but he did not care about this more than if they were drops of salt water splashed by the sea. As his character was something taken away and his temper, shouting and giving orders with so much courage, if not obey because it was our duty, we had obeyed out of fear … But finally it all ended suddenly, when a medium caliber bullet took his head, leaving him dead on the spot.

“This concluded the enthusiasm, if not strife. When our beloved commander was killed, he hid to not to be seen, but no one left to understand what had happened, and after a desperate struggle waged by the honor of the flag, the Bahama surrendered to the English, who it Gibraltar take them without first going down, as I suspect. “