Assertion: captain withers | /r/CapableOf | render essential services
Facets:
value: in 1810
type: TEMPORAL
value: in most of the conflicts
type: LOCATION
value: to the anglo-sicilian garrison
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: In 1810, when Joachim Murat marched into Lower Calabria, and encamped his army immediately opposite Messina, threatening to invade Sicily, and boasting that he would effect the subjugation of that fine island in less than 20 days, Captain Withers, and the people under his orders, rendered essential services to the Anglo-Sicilian garrison, by contributing to the formation of a flotilla, and co-operating in most of the conflicts that took place between it and the enemy