The Library of American Biography ... Second Series, Том 11Little, Brown&Company, 1846 |
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... the stern and lee quarter boat . No possibility remained of saving the fore and main masts but by cutting away the topmasts , a task of no little danger vices rendered by Lieutenant Barron , on this occa- sion 28 BIOGRAPHY . AMERICAN.
... the stern and lee quarter boat . No possibility remained of saving the fore and main masts but by cutting away the topmasts , a task of no little danger vices rendered by Lieutenant Barron , on this occa- sion 28 BIOGRAPHY . AMERICAN.
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... boats and booms stowed amid - ships . The fore yard was soon after cut away by Mr. Heron , and came down across the forecastle without being sprung . Thus we lay with only our bowsprit and fore and main masts , and the wreck of the ...
... boats and booms stowed amid - ships . The fore yard was soon after cut away by Mr. Heron , and came down across the forecastle without being sprung . Thus we lay with only our bowsprit and fore and main masts , and the wreck of the ...
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... boats lowered and despatched to rescue the Frenchmen . Decatur was the first to reach the vicinity of the sinking vessel . He found her crew collected on her rails , stripped at once of their plunder and their clothes , and ready for a ...
... boats lowered and despatched to rescue the Frenchmen . Decatur was the first to reach the vicinity of the sinking vessel . He found her crew collected on her rails , stripped at once of their plunder and their clothes , and ready for a ...
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Jared SPARKS. of her ; other boats were at hand , and all were saved . Decatur pulled in the captain , who , brush- ing the salt water out of his eyes , expressed a well feigned surprise at his being fired at by a vessel bearing the ...
Jared SPARKS. of her ; other boats were at hand , and all were saved . Decatur pulled in the captain , who , brush- ing the salt water out of his eyes , expressed a well feigned surprise at his being fired at by a vessel bearing the ...
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... boats . Life had nearly fled ; but it was not extinct . It was the life of one , who has since had celebrity , and lived to see his pre- server the pride and glory of his country . " It was under such circumstances I first saw the ...
... boats . Life had nearly fled ; but it was not extinct . It was the life of one , who has since had celebrity , and lived to see his pre- server the pride and glory of his country . " It was under such circumstances I first saw the ...
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