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Common terms and phrases12-pounders action Ameri American privateer armed arrived ashore attack Baltimore Barney battle blockade boat Boston brig British British cruiser British frigate broadside Cape Captain Boyle Captain Coggeshall Captain Diron Captain Green captured cargo carrying Charleston chase coast colors Comet command of Captain complement convoy craft cruise cruiser David Porter deck discovered Dominica drygoods eight enemy enemy's England English Englishman escape fell fight fire five fleet four fourteen guns frigate Grand Turk gunshot Halifax harbor Island Jamaica John killed laden Lieutenant Lisbon Liverpool merchant merchantmen Mill Prison mounting musket navy night o'clock officers ordered packet placed port prisoners priva privateer's privateersmen prize crew prize master quarter recaptured rigging sail Salem schooner seamen seized sent ship shot Silas Talbot sloop soon South Carolina squadron stranger sugar surrender tain taken Talbot teer thousand dollars took twenty United vessels West Indies wind wounded Yankee York Popular passagesPage xxi - The public will learn, with sentiments which we shall not presume to anticipate, that a third British frigate has struck to an American. This is an occurrence that calls for serious reflection, — this, and the fact stated in our paper of yesterday, that Lloyd's list contains notices of upwards of five hundred British vessels captured in seven months by the Americans. Page xxi - Any one who had predicted such a result of an American war this time last year would have been treated as a madman or a traitor. He would have been told, if his opponents had condescended to argue with him, that long ere seven months had elapsed the American... Page 46 - Mr. Brown immediately resolved on her destruction; and he forthwith directed one of his trusty ship-masters to collect eight of the largest long-boats in the harbor, with five oars to each, to have the oars and rowlocks well muffled, to prevent noise, and to place them at Fenner's Wharf, directly opposite the dwelling of Mr. Page 46 - Point, and would not float off until three o'clock, the next morning; and inviting those persons who felt a disposition to go and destroy that troublesome vessel, to repair in the evening to Mr. James Sabin's house. About nine o'clock, I took my father's gun, and my powder horn and bullets, and went to Mr. Page 294 - I do therefore, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested (possessing sufficient force), declare all the ports, harbors, bays, creeks, rivers, inlets, outlets, islands, and seacoast of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in a state of strict and rigorous blockade. Page 131 - Woodbridge testified at the bar of the House of Lords that " the number of ships lost by capture or destroyed by American privateers since the commencement of the war is seven hundred and thirty-three, of which, after deducting for those retaken and restored, there remained five hundred and fifty-nine, the value of which, including the ships, cargoes, etc., amounted, upon a very moderate calculation, to £1,800,633 18*. Page 165 - Beverly, where we found eleven other ships, all larger and finer vessels than the Cicero — all belonging to the same owners, the brothers Cabot — laid up for the winter. Yet such are the vicissitudes of war and the elements, that before the close of the year they were all lost by capture or wreck, and the house of Cabot had not a single ship afloat upon the ocean. Page 299 - ... Captain Boyle's handsome conduct merits the mention that the day after the action, when the captured schooner was released as a cartel to Havana, in compassion to her wounded, the commander of the " St. Lawrence " gave him a letter, in the event of his being taken by a British cruiser, testifying to his "obliging attention and watchful solicitude to preserve our effects, and render us comfortable during the short time we were in his possession ; " in which, he added, the captain " was carefully... Page 188 - ... the expense of your voyage. If a frigate is granted by the French admira[l] to convoy you, the captain of her will be instructed by the admiral to receive any moneys which it may be thought proper to put on board of him. I should suppose that by dividing the risk, or shipping a part on board of each, there will be greater safety, than putting all in one bottom. Page 294 - I consider the force under my command adequate to maintain strictly, rigorously, and effectually, the said blockade. And I do hereby require the respective officers, whether captains, commanders, or commanding officers, under my command, employed or to be employed on the coasts of England, Ireland, and Scotland, to pay strict attention to the execution of this my proclamation. And I do hereby caution and forbid the ships and vessels of all and every nation, in amity and peace with the United States,... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarPublic Goods And Private Solutions In Maritime HistoryLARRY J SECHREST - 2004 - Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics The American Revolution and the sugar colonies, 1775–1783Selwyn HH Carrington College Of Arts And SciencesDERELICTION OF DIPLOMACY - 2008 References from web pagesJSTOR: A History of American Privateers A history of American privateers | Reference & Research Book News ... PRIVATEERS.; Mr. Maclay's History of American Ones -- A Stirring ... War of 1812:Chasseur: privateer engages HMS St. Lawrence Bibliographic information
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