Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nge to the American Navy,—Captain Hulls Eager Acceptance.—HisUnrivaled Tactics and Maneuvers.—A Short, Terrific, Decisive Contest.—Yankee Valor on theOcean a Fixed Fact, Sternly Respected—Th
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . nge to the American Navy,—Captain Hulls Eager Acceptance.—HisUnrivaled Tactics and Maneuvers.—A Short, Terrific, Decisive Contest.—Yankee Valor on theOcean a Fixed Fact, Sternly Respected—The Constitution Becomes the Favorite SInp of theNation, and is Popularly Called Old Ironsides.—Cruise of the Constitution.—Hull, the SeaKing, in Command —A Sail! The Enemys Squadron !—Chased Three Days by Them.—Rowingand Warping in a Calm —Most Wonderful Escape on Uecord—Another Frigate in Sight, the Guer- riere.—Her Signals of Defiance —Yankee Eagerness for Ac-tion.—The Two Frigates Afoul.—Yard-arm to Yard-armEncounter.—Fire of the Constitution Reserved.—Final andDeadly Broadsides.—Fearless Conduct of her Crew.—British Colors Hauleil Down,—Sinking of the Shattered Wreck. Arninment and Power of the Ships.—An almost EqualMatch.—Anecdotes of the Two Commanders.—Honors to the Brave Victors.—Future Annals of the Constitution. Her Varied and Noble ** Never before, in the history of the world, did an English frigate strike to an Americanunder equal circumstances.— Times. KOUDEST among the of the American flag will for-ever be associated the career of that noble old frigate, the Constitution,. ^ —re-christened, by popular acclaim, Old Ironsides, for her grandand victorious resistance to British domination on the ocean, in succes-sive and hotl3--contested battles. The greatest of these triumphs came, too, at atime when the public heart heaved with despondency; and the sensibilities of awhole nation, deeply w
Size: 1312px × 1904px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookpublishersprin, bookyear1876
