The Times, 26 December, 1798: British Capture Gozo
Captain Ball's Official Report of the Capitultion of the Castle of Goza, plus a list of ordnance captured:217 French officers and men are taken along with Fifty barrels of powder, 9000 ball cartridges, 1700 flints...400 hand grenades filled; 90 pikes..Part of these arms are to be given to the Maltese to fight the French, with the Articles of Capitulation, signed by Captain Alex Ball and Audjutant Lochey, and, approved by Horatio Nelson -- 11in. (29cm.) col space