A History of the United States Navy, from 1775 to 1893, Band 1D. Appleton, 1893 |
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14-gun brig 18-pounders 32-gun frigate action afterward Alliance Ameri American frigate anchor attack battery battle boat boatswain Bonhomme Richard Boston brig British Navy broadside cannon Cape Captain Bainbridge Captain Decatur Captain Hull Captain Jones Captain Preble captured carried chase Chesapeake coast commander Congress Constellation Constitution crew cruise cruisers David Porter enemy enemy's engaged English Enterprise escape Essex fire flag fleet force forecastle France French Guerrière gunboats guns harbor hauled hundred James John John Adams John Paul Jones ketch Landais Lawrence Lieutenant loss Macedonian main deck marines Master-Commandant masts merchantmen Midshipman naval night o'clock officers Official report ordered Philadelphia port prisoners privateer prize quarter-deck quarters returned Richard Somers rigging Rodgers round shot sail Sailing-Master Samuel Barron schooner seamen sent Serapis ship shot side signal sloop soon squadron starboard Stephen Decatur stern stranger tain tion Tripoli Tripolitans United vessels William Bainbridge wind yards
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Seite 127 - Will it not then be advisable to begin, without delay, to provide and lay up the materials for the building and equipping of ships of war; and to proceed in the work by degrees, in proportion as our resources shall render it practicable without inconvenience ; so that a future war of Europe may not find our commerce in the same unprotected state in which it was found by the present ? Congress have repeatedly, and not without success, directed their attention to the encouragement of manufactures.
Seite 380 - The public will learn, with sentiments which we shall not presume to anticipate, that a third British frigate has struck to an American. This is an occurrence that calls for serious reflection, — this, and the fact stated in our paper of yesterday, that Lloyd's list contains notices of upwards of five hundred British vessels captured in seven months by the Americans.
Seite 93 - I had lost my boats and people through my imprudence in sending boats to take a prize ! He persisted in his reproaches, though he was assured by Messrs. De Weibert and De Chamillard, that the barge was towing the ship at the time of elopement, and that she had not been sent in pursuit of the prize. He was affronted, because I would not the day before suffer him to chase without my orders, and to approach the dangerous shore I have already mentioned...
Seite 94 - About half-past nine, a cartridge of powder was set on fire, which, running from cartridge to cartridge all the way aft, blew up the whole of the people and officers that were quartered abaft the mainmast...
Seite 350 - I cannot receive the sword of a man who has so bravely defended his ship, but I will receive your hand.
Seite 95 - Richard, there being the most essential difference in their appearance and construction. Besides, it was then full moonlight, and the sides of the Bon Homme Richard were all black, while the sides of the prize were all yellow.
Seite 409 - ... beyond the power of interfering with us, and meet you wherever it is most agreeable to you, within the limits" of the undermentioned rendezvous, viz.
Seite 95 - ... third in the middle, in a horizontal line. Every tongue cried that he was firing into the wrong ship, but nothing availed; he passed round, firing into the...
Seite 404 - ... every day, for about an hour and a half in the forenoon, when not prevented by chase or the state of the weather, the men were exercised at training the guns, and for the same time in the afternoon in the use of the broadsword, pike, musket, etc.
Seite 99 - ... a person must have been an eye-witness to form a just idea of the tremendous scene of carnage, wreck, and ruin that everywhere appeared. Humanity cannot but recoil from the prospect of such finished horror, and lament that war should produce such fatal consequences.