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... appeared to the southward . It was so late in the day that I could not come up with the fleet before night . At length , however , I got so near one of them as to force her to run ashore between Flamborough Head and the Spurn . Soon ...
... appeared to the southward . It was so late in the day that I could not come up with the fleet before night . At length , however , I got so near one of them as to force her to run ashore between Flamborough Head and the Spurn . Soon ...
Page 75
... appeared laying to to windward . About noon we saw and chased a large ship that appeared coming round Flamborough Head from the northward , and at the same time I manned and armed one of the pilot boats to sail in pursuit of the ...
... appeared laying to to windward . About noon we saw and chased a large ship that appeared coming round Flamborough Head from the northward , and at the same time I manned and armed one of the pilot boats to sail in pursuit of the ...
Page 79
... appeared . Humanity cannot but recoil from the prospect of such finished horror , and lament that war should produce such fatal consequences . After the carpenters , as well as Capt . de Cottineau , and other men of sense , had well ...
... appeared . Humanity cannot but recoil from the prospect of such finished horror , and lament that war should produce such fatal consequences . After the carpenters , as well as Capt . de Cottineau , and other men of sense , had well ...
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George Washington writes his wife of his selection as Com | 3 |
refuses to answer a letter and loses thirteen fine | 9 |
Benjamin Franklin makes a freak suggestion | 15 |
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