Farragut continued: "They let the chain go, but the man sent to explode the petard did not succeed; his wires broke. Bell would have burned the hulks, but the illumination would have given the enemy a chance to destroy his gunboat, which had got aground.
"However, the chain was divided and it gives us space enough to go through."
Preparing to Attack. --Old B-R'er
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