. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... CO < a•JPio .^E-H <: 6-O 2; Q <; <Ui 544 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVH. WAR Phoebe had been sent in pursuit of him,Porter sailed to Valparaiso to look for he lay there the Phoebe, accompa-nied by the English sloop of war Cherub,arrived off the harbor. The Phoebe was herself a full matchfor the Essex, but Porter resolved to fightboth vessels. As he was leaving the harbora sudden squall carried away his maintop-mast, and left him at the
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... CO < a•JPio .^E-H <: 6-O 2; Q <; <Ui 544 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVH. WAR Phoebe had been sent in pursuit of him,Porter sailed to Valparaiso to look for he lay there the Phoebe, accompa-nied by the English sloop of war Cherub,arrived off the harbor. The Phoebe was herself a full matchfor the Essex, but Porter resolved to fightboth vessels. As he was leaving the harbora sudden squall carried away his maintop-mast, and left him at the mercy of his ene-mies, which at once attacked him. Hisdefence was one of the most gallant and. COMMODORE DECATUR. desperate in history, but he was forced tosurrender, but not until he had lost fifty-eight of his crew killed, and sixty-sixwounded. In January, 1815, the frigate President,Commodore Decatur, managed to elude theblockade of New York, and get to sea. Shewas chased by a British squadron of fivet^essels, and a running fight ensued. Beingentirely disabled, the President was forcedto surrender. In February, 1815, while cruising off theport of Lisbon, one fine moonlight night, the Constitution, Captain Stewart, encoun-tered two British sloops of war, the Cyane,24, and the * Levant, 18, and captured bothof them after a short engagement. Thesevessels were captured after peace was signed,and were restored to the British. On thetwenty-third of March, the Hornet, Cap-tain Biddle, captured the British brig Pen-guin of the Cape of Good Hope. The Penguin was so much injured that Biddlewas forced to destroy her. On the thirtiethof June the Peacock, Captain Warrington,ignorant of t
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