During the late war (1793-1802), I was in five Actions with the Fleet of the Enemy:

13/14 March 1795 (Battle of the Gulf of Genoa)
13 July 1795 (Battle of Hyères)
14 February 1797 (Battle of Cape St Vincent)
1/2 August 1798 (Battle of the Nile)
2 April 1801 (Battle of Copenhagen)

I was also in:

3 actions with frigates
6 engagements against batteries
10 actions in boats employed in cutting out vessels from harbours
3 captures of towns

I served on shore with the Army four months and commanded the batteries at the sieges of Bastia and Calvi (Corsica 1794).

I assisted at the capture of:

26 sail of the line
6 frigates
4 corvettes
11 privateers
50 merchant vessels.

In which service I lost my right eye and arm and was severely wounded and bruised in my body.

I append here accounts of some of my main battles taken from official accounts and private letters:

1. Dr Benjamin Moseley's account of the capture of Fort San Juan in Nicaragua.

2. My letter to my wife on the action of 13/14 March 1795.

3. My letter to the Duke of Clarence on the action of 13 July 1795.

4. My report of the capture of the Spanish frigate San Sabina, December 1796.

5. Sir John Jervis's dispatch on the action of 14 February 1797.

6. My account of the Proceedings of HMS Captain on 14 February 1797.

7. My report on the attack on the Spanish gunboats, July 1797.

8. My account of proceedings on the attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife, July 1797.

9. My dispatch on the Battle of the Nile, 1/2 August 1798.

10. My report on the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801.

11. My dispatch on the attack on Boulogne, 15 August 1801.

12. Vice Admiral Collingwood's dispatch on the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.