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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... deck . While he was thus indefatigably engaged in weakening the enemy's power , and advancing his country's interest , he was disinterested and generous in all that related to his private advantage . The brave and worthy opponent , whom ...
... deck . While he was thus indefatigably engaged in weakening the enemy's power , and advancing his country's interest , he was disinterested and generous in all that related to his private advantage . The brave and worthy opponent , whom ...
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... deck , I think myself a match for her . " About three P. M. of the 7th of March , a signal was made from the Randolph for a sail to the windward , in conse- quence of which the squadron hauled upon a wind , in order to speak her . It ...
... deck , I think myself a match for her . " About three P. M. of the 7th of March , a signal was made from the Randolph for a sail to the windward , in conse- quence of which the squadron hauled upon a wind , in order to speak her . It ...
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... deck near Captain Biddle , that he was wounded by a shot from the Moultrie . The fire from the Randolph was constant and well directed . She fired nearly three broadsides to the enemy's one , and she appeared , while the battle lasted ...
... deck near Captain Biddle , that he was wounded by a shot from the Moultrie . The fire from the Randolph was constant and well directed . She fired nearly three broadsides to the enemy's one , and she appeared , while the battle lasted ...
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... deck leaped over board , and swam to land ; who were followed by some , who made their escape through the cabin windows . The officers were just rising as Preble entered the cab- in ; he assured them , that they were his prisoners , and ...
... deck leaped over board , and swam to land ; who were followed by some , who made their escape through the cabin windows . The officers were just rising as Preble entered the cab- in ; he assured them , that they were his prisoners , and ...
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... decks , the lower battery carrying eighteen pounders , and the Countess of Scarborough , a new twenty - two gun ship . We were no sooner descried than the armed vessels stood out to sea , while the trade took refuge under the cannon of ...
... decks , the lower battery carrying eighteen pounders , and the Countess of Scarborough , a new twenty - two gun ship . We were no sooner descried than the armed vessels stood out to sea , while the trade took refuge under the cannon of ...
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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...