Last we 'eard

Last we heard, there was another French corvette out there off the east coast of Canada carrying huron allies to the battle for Fort Bryan and its frosty environs. This ship, the SS Slipstreame, is captained by one of the most daring, dashing and devilish and scheming of all the doylieboy captains of the French Navy, a young petty officer rising through the ranks called Capt Audinette de Snape, one time sargeant in Napoleon's Iberian Army, but now transferred to the Imperial Revolutionary Navy. We have run into this one several times during the ins and outs of the 6 1/2 -year Indo-French Wars in Canada when the French made treaty with the Hurons and attacked a number of our British forts all along the frontier from Fort Michael in Columbia right along to Fort Andrew in Halifax and then along to Fort Brendan in Newfoundland. Capt Audinette de Snape is an able bodied seaman and with his cutlass he makes a difficult cuss of a snipe to snape. His superiors are a middle-aged and a middle ranking pair of officers called Chevalier Brian de Bolesy on board the SS Sous le Soleil and Capitaine Brian de Froste on board the SS Garcon Gris who like to make hay with the Hurons and the Crow and the Blackfoot, two evil scheming revolutionaries who have started many localised revolts around the colonies against the Royal Navy in the British Empire. A pair to watch. But not as dashing as Capt de Snape. Snape like his other half, Capitaine Garette de Galette-Walsh on the SS Bourgogne, is quite the done thing, quite the ticket, and recruiting many of our captains over to the Napoleonic Revolution. Am half tempted myself to go over to Napoleon. In my more insane moments. Still I might have lost my faith in Wellington but not my reason. Wellington always wins.