 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1842 - 1130 σελίδες
...with the British East India Company's cruiser, the Nautilus, of fourteen guns, which was of course captured after a few broadsides, although the British...which the English, for the first time for a century Men. Boys. ToUl. * Hornet ............ 163 ............... 2 ............ 165 Penguin .......... 105... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 678 σελίδες
...of the close of the war in these terms : " Thus terminated at sea this memorable contest, in wliich the English, for the first time for a century and...his own countrymen, or the gallant bearing of their antagonists, feels almost equally warmed in narrating cithei side of the strife." 2T4 CH. XII1.J 275... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1873 - 524 σελίδες
...British historian Alison, towards the close of an account by no means partial to the American side, " this memorable contest, in which the English, for...his own countrymen or the gallant bearing of their antagonists, feels almost equally warmed in narrating either side of the strife.*' Peace re- envoys... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 542 σελίδες
...British historian Alison, towards the close of an account by no means partial to the American side, " this memorable contest, in which the English, for...his own countrymen or the gallant bearing of their antagonists, feels almost equally wanned in narrating either side of the strife." P,,,,^ envoys to... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 538 σελίδες
...British historian Alison, towards the close of an account by no means partial to the American side, " this memorable contest, in which the English, for...his own countrymen or the gallant bearing of their antagonists, feels almost equally warmed in narrating either side of the strife." Peace envoys to treat... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1901 - 642 σελίδες
...brig "Penguin" off the coast of Brazil. "Thus terminated at sea," says Alison, the British historian, "this memorable contest, in which the English, for...own. element; and in recounting which the British his- torian, at a loss whether to admire most the devoted heroism of his own countrymen or the gallant... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - 1904 - 440 σελίδες
...brig Penguin off the coast of Brazil. " Thus terminated at sea," says Alison, the British historian, " this memorable contest, in which the English, for...his own countrymen or the gallant bearing of their antagonists, feels almost equally warmed in narrating either side of the strife." The Americans who... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 σελίδες
...officers into confinement, the Americans i "Thus terminated at sea," says the British historian Alison/ "this memorable contest, in which the English, for...recounting which, the British historian, at a loss whether tq admire most the devoted heroism of his own countrymen or the gallant bearing of their antagonists,... | |
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Thus terminated at sea," says Alison, the British historian, " this memorable contest, in which the English, for the first time for a century and a half, met with equal antagonists on their own element ; and in recounting which the British historian,... 
