 that his advantage lay in long-distance fighting, strove to break away. Jones bent all his energies to the task of keeping the ships together. Meantime the battle raged fiercely. Jones himself, in his official report of the battle, thus describes the...  THE NAVAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - Page 110by WILLIS J. ABBOT - 1890Full view - About this book
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...out bravely during the whole of the action; especially the main top, where Lieut. Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and cannister shot... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 572 pages
...out bravely during the whole of the action, especially the maintop, where Lieutenant Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with doubleheaded shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...out bravely during the whole of the action, especially the maintop, where Lieutenant Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with doubleheaded shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to... | |
 | John Paul Jones - Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 - 1843 - 520 pages
...bravely during the whole of the action, especially the main-top, where Lieutenant Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot,... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1847 - 470 pages
...out bravclv duringthe whole of the action, especially the maintop, where Lieutenant Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the mainmast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister-shot,... | |
 | John Frost - Naval battles - 1850 - 462 pages
...bravely during the whole of the action, especially the main-top, where Lieutenant Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot,... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...out bravelv duringthe whole of the action, especially the maintop, where Lieutenant Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the mainmast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served witli grape and canister-shot,... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 422 pages
...out bravely during the whole of the action ; especially the main top where Lieut. Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister-shot to... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1853 - 822 pages
...bravely during the whole of the action, especially the main-top, where Lieutenant Slack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot,... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1857 - 853 pages
...bravely during the whole of the action, especially the main-top, where Lieutenant Stack commanded. I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot,... | |
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