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Page 118
... brig guns , after an engagement in fought with great gallantry , twenty British knocked to pieces , while the Americans comparatively unscathed . Immediately a British seventy - four captured the vi memory of her the Americans gave the ...
... brig guns , after an engagement in fought with great gallantry , twenty British knocked to pieces , while the Americans comparatively unscathed . Immediately a British seventy - four captured the vi memory of her the Americans gave the ...
Page 120
... brig Reindeer , teen guns and a hundred and twenty men Reindeer was a weaker ship than the Wa guns were lighter , and her men fewer ; b commander , Captain Manners , was one most gallant men in the splendid British and he promptly took ...
... brig Reindeer , teen guns and a hundred and twenty men Reindeer was a weaker ship than the Wa guns were lighter , and her men fewer ; b commander , Captain Manners , was one most gallant men in the splendid British and he promptly took ...
Page 122
... try her after nightfall . Accordingly she set h in pursuit , and drew steadily toward her a nist , a big eighteen - gun brig , the Avon , Drak The Avon more powerful than the Reindeer . kept. 122 HERO TALES FROM AMERIC.
... try her after nightfall . Accordingly she set h in pursuit , and drew steadily toward her a nist , a big eighteen - gun brig , the Avon , Drak The Avon more powerful than the Reindeer . kept. 122 HERO TALES FROM AMERIC.
Page 125
... brig and the other a twenty - gun ship ; they were so close that the Wasp was afraid they would inter- fere before the combat could be ended . Never- theless , Blakeley persevered , and made his attack with equal skill and daring . It ...
... brig and the other a twenty - gun ship ; they were so close that the Wasp was afraid they would inter- fere before the combat could be ended . Never- theless , Blakeley persevered , and made his attack with equal skill and daring . It ...
Page 126
... brig . gallant This was the last that was ever hear Wasp . She never again appea no trace of any of those aboard her w found . Whether she was wrecked on som coast , whether she foundered in some furio or what befell her none ever knew ...
... brig . gallant This was the last that was ever hear Wasp . She never again appea no trace of any of those aboard her w found . Whether she was wrecked on som coast , whether she foundered in some furio or what befell her none ever knew ...
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