The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The naval war of 1812P.F. Collier & Son, 1882 |
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... Peacock captures the Epervier - Commodore Barney's flotilla - The British in the Chesapeake - The Wasp captures the Reindeer and sinks the Avon - Cruise and loss of the Adams - The privateer General Armstrong- The privateer Prince de ...
... Peacock captures the Epervier - Commodore Barney's flotilla - The British in the Chesapeake - The Wasp captures the Reindeer and sinks the Avon - Cruise and loss of the Adams - The privateer General Armstrong- The privateer Prince de ...
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... Peacock captures the Epervier- Commodore Barney's flotilla — The British in the Chesa- peake - The Wasp captures the Reindeer and sinks the Avon - Cruise and loss of the Adams — The privateer General Armstrong - The privateer Prince de ...
... Peacock captures the Epervier- Commodore Barney's flotilla — The British in the Chesa- peake - The Wasp captures the Reindeer and sinks the Avon - Cruise and loss of the Adams — The privateer General Armstrong - The privateer Prince de ...
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... Peacock , Capt . Lewis Warrington , sailed from New York on March 12 , and cruised southward ; on the 28th of April , at seven in the morning , lat . 17 ° 47 ' N. , long . 80 ° 7 ' W. , several sail were made to windward.25 These were a ...
... Peacock , Capt . Lewis Warrington , sailed from New York on March 12 , and cruised southward ; on the 28th of April , at seven in the morning , lat . 17 ° 47 ' N. , long . 80 ° 7 ' W. , several sail were made to windward.25 These were a ...
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... Peacock came down with the wind on her star- board quarter . At 10 A.M. the vessels were within gunshot , and the Peacock edged away to get in a raking broadside , but the Epervier frustrated this by putting her helm up until close on ...
... Peacock came down with the wind on her star- board quarter . At 10 A.M. the vessels were within gunshot , and the Peacock edged away to get in a raking broadside , but the Epervier frustrated this by putting her helm up until close on ...
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... Peacock's fire was now very hot , and directed chiefly at her adversary's hull , on which it told heavily , while she did not suffer at all in return . The Epervier coming up into the wind , owing somewhat to the loss of head - sail ...
... Peacock's fire was now very hot , and directed chiefly at her adversary's hull , on which it told heavily , while she did not suffer at all in return . The Epervier coming up into the wind , owing somewhat to the loss of head - sail ...
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