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Page 37
... fleet of canoes bearing five hundred - British regulars , French partizans , and Indians . The Vincennes Creoles refused to fight gainst the British , and the American officer who ing men - year fight- 38 HERO TALES had been sent ...
... fleet of canoes bearing five hundred - British regulars , French partizans , and Indians . The Vincennes Creoles refused to fight gainst the British , and the American officer who ing men - year fight- 38 HERO TALES had been sent ...
Page 59
... fleet , by of the sea , and in this way cut off Cornwallis at Yorktown and bring the Revolution to a successful was of far more importance , close . That which led , however , more directly than anything else to the final surrender at ...
... fleet , by of the sea , and in this way cut off Cornwallis at Yorktown and bring the Revolution to a successful was of far more importance , close . That which led , however , more directly than anything else to the final surrender at ...
Page 105
... fleet in the Medi- terranean was taken by Commodore Preble , who In had 1803 just Morocco for an attack made succeeded in forcing satisfaction from upon men by a vessel from Tangier . claimed to our merchant- He also pro- preparing I a ...
... fleet in the Medi- terranean was taken by Commodore Preble , who In had 1803 just Morocco for an attack made succeeded in forcing satisfaction from upon men by a vessel from Tangier . claimed to our merchant- He also pro- preparing I a ...
Page 117
... proved that the Eng- lish could be beaten at their own game on the sea . They did what the huge fleets of France , Spain , and Holland had failed to do , and the great 118 modern writers on naval warfare in Europe . paid 117.
... proved that the Eng- lish could be beaten at their own game on the sea . They did what the huge fleets of France , Spain , and Holland had failed to do , and the great 118 modern writers on naval warfare in Europe . paid 117.
Page 119
... fleets had destroyed the navies of every other power of Europe , and had obtained such complete supremacy over the French that the French fleets were kept in port . Off these ports lay the great squadrons of the Eng- lish ships of the ...
... fleets had destroyed the navies of every other power of Europe , and had obtained such complete supremacy over the French that the French fleets were kept in port . Off these ports lay the great squadrons of the Eng- lish ships of the ...
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