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Ogier - Landais, los más rápidos en el shakedown del "Monte"

The ringleaders were resting for their watch. Four of them had been pointed out by their betrayer. With a single stroke of a sharp hatchet The cords which held their hammocks were cut and, as the men rolled out, still asleep, they were seized and bound. Then the ship was searched for hidden arms and ammunition. They found in one of the ringleaders’ chests some cartridges and balls and in another ‘a very indecent knife, fit only for such horrid purposes.’ Immediately Landais established a court of officers and gentlemen-passengers and conducted an inquest among the ringleaders and the informants. One by one, the suspected members of the crew were cross-examined. Though the captain suspected more, soon there were thirty-eight men in irons on board the ‘Alliance,’ awaiting the pleasure of Mr. Franklin at Passy. When they landed, since there were not enough American naval officers in France to form a court-martial, they were put into a French prison. Though Landais wished them hanged, they were eventually exchanged, as Lafayette insisted, for American prisoners of war.