A General View of the Rise, Progress, and Brilliant Achievements of the American Navy, Down to the Present Time1828 - Greece - 484 pages |
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... , who was then a lieutenant , and was going on the expedition , was distinguished by Captain Biddle , and introduced to his friends as an officer of merit . Before he sailed from the Capes of Delaware , an 20 RISE AND PROGRESS OF.
... , who was then a lieutenant , and was going on the expedition , was distinguished by Captain Biddle , and introduced to his friends as an officer of merit . Before he sailed from the Capes of Delaware , an 20 RISE AND PROGRESS OF.
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... Lieutenant Josiah , a brave and excel- lent officer , was put on board one of the prizes , with all the highland officers , and ordered to make the first port . Unfortunately , about ten days afterwards , he was taken by the Cerberus ...
... Lieutenant Josiah , a brave and excel- lent officer , was put on board one of the prizes , with all the highland officers , and ordered to make the first port . Unfortunately , about ten days afterwards , he was taken by the Cerberus ...
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... Lieutenant Josiah has met with , of which the congress have received un- doubted information . " Lieutenant Josiah was exchan- ged , after an imprisonment of ten months . After the capture of the ships with the highlanders , such was ...
... Lieutenant Josiah has met with , of which the congress have received un- doubted information . " Lieutenant Josiah was exchan- ged , after an imprisonment of ten months . After the capture of the ships with the highlanders , such was ...
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... Lieutenants Grey and Simmons , whose gallant conduct , and that of their brave detachment , did justice to the high charac- ter of the regiment . As soon as the Randolph was re- fitted , and a new mainmast obtained in place of one which ...
... Lieutenants Grey and Simmons , whose gallant conduct , and that of their brave detachment , did justice to the high charac- ter of the regiment . As soon as the Randolph was re- fitted , and a new mainmast obtained in place of one which ...
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... Lieutenant Barnes , of that ship , called out , " This is the Randolph , " and she immediately hoisted her colours and gave the enemy a broadside . Shortly after the action commenced , Captain Biddle received a wound in the thigh and ...
... Lieutenant Barnes , of that ship , called out , " This is the Randolph , " and she immediately hoisted her colours and gave the enemy a broadside . Shortly after the action commenced , Captain Biddle received a wound in the thigh and ...
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Page 69 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Page 69 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added...
Page 15 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Page 282 - The Niagara being very little injured, I determined to pass through the enemy's line, bore up and passed ahead of their two ships and a brig, giving a raking fire to them from the starboard guns, and to a large schooner and sloop, from the larboard side, at half pistol-shot distance.
Page 15 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 15 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, Sir, what in the world is equal to it ? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Page 15 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 47 - Had the Earl been on board the Ranger the following evening, he would have seen the awful pomp and dreadful carnage of a sea engagement; both affording ample subject for the pencil as well as melancholy reflection for the contemplative mind. Humanity starts back from such scenes of horror, and cannot sufficiently execrate the vile promoters of this detestable war For they, 'twas they unsheathed the ruthless blade, And Heaven shall ask the havoc it has made.
Page 256 - I am happy to have it in my power to Say that my worthy friend Cap! Lewis is recovering fast, he walked a little to day for the first time, I have discontinued the tent in the hole the ball came out...
Page 378 - Beckmantown road proceeded most rapidly; the militia skirmished with his advanced parties, and, except a few brave men, fell back most precipitately in the greatest disorder, notwithstanding the British troops did not deign to fire on them, except by their flankers and advanced patroles. The night previous I ordered...