 | Shipwrecks - 1813 - 430 pages
...Guerriere fired a gun to leeward. Thus after 30 minutes close action, " Tele a Tete," the Guerriere is without a mast or a single spar standing, except...her spars. The British, by their own account, had 16 kilted, and 63 wounded in the action ; her secondlieutenant was among the former ; the Captain,... | |
 | 1813 - 554 pages
...thirty minutes after we got fairly along side the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull below and above water so shattered, that...a few more broadsides must have carried her down. After informing that so fine a ship as the Guerriere, commanded by an able and experienced officer,... | |
 | Benjamin Allen - American poetry - 1813 - 142 pages
...30 minutes after we got fairly along side the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull, below and above water, so shattered, that a few more broadsides must have earned her down. " After informing you that so fine a ship as the Cuerriere, commanded by an able and... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 548 pages
...thirty minutes after we got fairly along side the enemv, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull below and above water so shattered, that...a few more broadsides must have carried her down. After informing that so fine a ship as the Guerriere, commanded by an able and experienced officer,... | |
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1815 - 228 pages
...minutes after we got fairly along side of the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and -her hull below and above water so shattered,...a few more broadsides must have carried her down. After informing that so fine a ship as the Guerriere, commanded by an able and experienced officer,... | |
 | Samuel R. Brown - United States - 1815 - 382 pages
...minutes after he got fairly alongside the Guerriere, she surrendered. She :had not a spar standing, and her hull below and above water so shattered that a few more broadsides mus^have carried her down. : ? The Constitution had seven men killed and sevtn •wounded. i 354 HISTORY... | |
 | United States - 1816 - 416 pages
...got fairly alongside the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull, below aud above water, so shattered, that a few more broadsides must have carried her down. After informing you that so fine a ship as theCuerriere, commanded by an able aud experienced officer,... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - United States - 1817 - 344 pages
...thirty minutes after we got fairly alongside the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull below and above water so shattered, that...a few more broadsides must have carried her down. After informing you that so fine a ship as the {jruerriere, commanded by an able and experienced officer,... | |
 | Heman Allen Fay - United States - 1817 - 294 pages
...thirty minutes, after we got fairly alongside the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull below and above water so shattered, that...a few more broadsides must have carried her down. After informing you that so fine a ship as the Guerrier, commanded by an able and experienced officer,... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - Canada History War of 1812 Campaigns - 1818 - 378 pages
...along side of the enemy, she surrendered, and had not a spar standing, and her hull, above and below water, so shattered, that a few more broadsides must have carried her down." The Guerriere was so much damaged, as to render it impossible to bring her in; she was therefore set... | |
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On seeing this we ceased firing, so that in thirty minutes after we got fairly alongside the enemy she surrendered, and had not a spar standing and her hull below and above water so shattered that a few more broadsides must have carried her down. 
