The American Mariners: Or, The Atlantic Voyage. A Moral Poem ... Prefixed is A Vindication of the American Character ... To which are Added Naval Annals: Or, An Impartial Summary of the Actions Fought, During the Late War, at Sea, and on the Lakes, Between the Ships of Great Britain and Those of the United States of America ... |
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... Yankey frigate got all clear for another engagement . + Burrows commanded the United States brig Enterprize in her memorable action with the British Brig Boxer , commanded by Cap- To awe the tyrants of the turban'd host , And 42 THE ...
... Yankey frigate got all clear for another engagement . + Burrows commanded the United States brig Enterprize in her memorable action with the British Brig Boxer , commanded by Cap- To awe the tyrants of the turban'd host , And 42 THE ...
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... yankey thunder , whose deep sound Shall make his tritons start , his coursers bound . And , hark you , let the canopy be spread , Of antick work with gold and silver thread , 990 * A legitimate sailor always describes the recognition of ...
... yankey thunder , whose deep sound Shall make his tritons start , his coursers bound . And , hark you , let the canopy be spread , Of antick work with gold and silver thread , 990 * A legitimate sailor always describes the recognition of ...
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... yankey boast ! Let them approach again our frowning coast ! 1120 In the United States Navy seamen enter voluntarily for two years , and subscribe articles , the same as in the merchant - service . Our lofty battle ships of two tiers ...
... yankey boast ! Let them approach again our frowning coast ! 1120 In the United States Navy seamen enter voluntarily for two years , and subscribe articles , the same as in the merchant - service . Our lofty battle ships of two tiers ...
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... Yankey was now and then transplanted into an English man of war , who gave evidence of his consanguinity to the British , and vindicated the genuineness of his descent , either in taking a trick at the helm , furling a sail in a gale of ...
... Yankey was now and then transplanted into an English man of war , who gave evidence of his consanguinity to the British , and vindicated the genuineness of his descent , either in taking a trick at the helm , furling a sail in a gale of ...
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... Yankey is derived from the Indian epithet Yankoo , which implies in the Indian language the quality of invincible courage . It was bestowed on the Americans by the Indians , who entertain so lofty ideas of American enterprize and valour ...
... Yankey is derived from the Indian epithet Yankoo , which implies in the Indian language the quality of invincible courage . It was bestowed on the Americans by the Indians , who entertain so lofty ideas of American enterprize and valour ...
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action American frigate anchor arms bark bear behold beneath billows boat boatswain bosom bowsprit breast breeze brig British broadside brow Cape Captain Captain Broke Captain Lawrence carronade Chesapeake Chesapeake's coast colours command Commodore Constitution crew cries crowd cruize Decatur deck deep Endymion enemy English fell fire flag fleet forecastle frigate gale gallant Guerriere guns hail hand hauled head heart heave helm hoisted hull Java killed land larboard Lieutenant light look Macedonian main-deck marines mast Midshipman miles naval navy Neptune night o'er ocean officers port prow quarter-deck quarters raking Reindeer roll round sail sailors schooner seamen Shannon ship ship's shore shot side sight Sir Peter Parker sloop sloop of war soul spars spirit squadron standing starboard Statira stern stood storm swell tears thee thou tide United United States Navy vessels voice wave wind wounded wretched yankey yards
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Page 238 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Page 238 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 365 - Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Page 238 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 371 - ... enemy just then got clear of us, and his foremast and bowsprit being both gone, and perceiving us wearing to give him a fresh broadside, he again called out that he had surrendered. It was with difficulty I could restrain my crew from firing into him again, as he had certainly fired into us after having surrendered. From the firing of the first gun, to the last time the enemy cried out he had surrendered, was exactly twenty-two minutes by the watch.
Page 318 - I had let fall my foretop-sail and foresail, but the want of tacks and sheets rendered them almost useless to us — yet we were enabled, for a short time, to close with the enemy ; and although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cockpit filled with wounded — although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a perfect wreck, we were still encouraged to hope to save her, from the circumstance of the Cherub, from her crippled state, being compelled to haul off. She did...
Page 373 - I cannot speak sufficiently in praise of the firmness and deliberation with which my whole line received their approach — more could not have been expected from veterans inured to war.
Page 318 - Many of my guns had been rendered useless by the enemy's shot, and many of them had their whole crews destroyed. We manned them again from those which were disabled, and one gun, in particular, was three times manned; fifteen men were slain at it, in the course of the action!
Page 317 - The enemy continued to approach, and shewed an evident intention of attacking, regardless of the neutrality of the place where I was anchored; and the caution observed in their approach to the attack of the crippled Essex, was truly ridiculous, as was their display of their motto-flags, and the number of jacks at all their mast-heads.
Page 239 - American seafaring citizens, and until a final declaration had been made by the Government of Great Britain that her hostile orders against our commerce would not be revoked but on conditions as impossible as unjust, whilst it was known that these orders would not otherwise cease but with a war which had lasted nearly twenty years, and which, according to appearances at that time...