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Brewer's: Vernon
mentioned by Thomson in his Summer, was Admiral Edward Vernon, who attacked Carthagena in 1741; but the malaria reached the crew, and, as the poet says -
“To infant weakness sunk the warrior's arms.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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