 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...colors ; fortunately for me, a cannon ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign staff: he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sinking,...much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got clear, as appears by their own acknowledgements, and by their having let go an anchor the... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 374 pages
...colors ; fortunately for me, a cannon ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign staff: he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sinking,...All this time the Bon homme Richard had sustained (Inaction alone, and the enemy, though much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 490 pages
...have the rest in Com. Jones's own words, for no one can give it better or more briefly. All this lime the Bon homme Richard had sustained the action alone,...much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got clear, as appears by their own acknowledgments, and by their having let go an anchor the instant... | |
 | John Paul Jones - United States - 1830 - 358 pages
...run aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colours. Fortunately for me, a cannon-ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff;...much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got clear, as appears by their own acknowledgments, and by their having let go an anchor the instant... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1845 - 416 pages
...run aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colours. Fortunately for me, a cannon-ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff;...much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got clear, as appears by their own acknowledgments, and by their having let go an anchor the instant... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1847 - 470 pages
...before, by carrying away the ensign-staff ; he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sinking, as re supposed, or of calling for quarter, and he preferred...much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got clear, as appears by their own acknowledgments, and by their having let go an anchor the instant... | |
 | George Atkinson - Cumbria (England) - 1850 - 382 pages
...colours. Fortunately for me, a cannonball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign- staff ; he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sinking,...sustained the action alone, and the enemy, though much s force, would have been very glad to have got o^ as appears by their own acknowledgment, and by their... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...before, by carrying away the ensign-staff; he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sinking, as be supposed, or of calling for quarter, and he preferred...much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got clear, as appears by their own acknowledgments, and by their having let go an anchor the instant... | |
 | John Frost - Naval battles - 1850 - 462 pages
...run aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colours. Fortunately for me, a cannonball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff;...quarter, and he preferred the latter. " All this time the Bon-Homme Richard had sustained the action alone, and the enemy, though much superior in force, would... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 434 pages
...colors ; fortunately for me, a cannon ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign staff; he was, therefore, reduced to the necessity of sinking,...much superior in force, would have been very glad to have got clear, as appears by their own acknowledgments, and their having let go an anchor the instant... | |
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I must observe, that the two first were slightly wounded, and, as the ship had received various shot under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,... 
