The Bourbon tricolor still hung over Gaeta but the blockade was tight and the powder magazines in the fortress were being blown up one by one, and nothing could be saved there now except honor: not much, that is;
Gaetan haizean kulunkan jarraitzen zuen Borbondarren banderak, baina blokeoa burnizkoa zen, eta gotorlekuko armategiek banan-banan leher egiten zuten; orduko han ez zen ezer salbatzen, ohorea salbu, hau da, deus gutxi;