[169] See United Service Journal, March, 1841, pp. 332-3.
[170] By a singular coincidence, the two brothers commenced their career in the same ship, the Victory, to which their near relative, Lieutenant Carré Tupper, belonged when he was killed in the Mediterranean, in one of her boats, and all three lost their lives in boats!
APPENDIX D.
COLONEL WILLIAM DE VIC TUPPER.
... My beautiful, my brave!
Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime
Has felt the influence of malignant star,
And waged with Fortune an unequal war!