. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... he fell in withthe British frigate Guerriere,Captain Dacres, one of the ves-sels that had chased her duringthe previous month. TheGuerriere immediately stood towards her,and both vessels prepared for action. TheEnglish commander opened his fire at longrange^ but Captain Hull refused to replyuntil he had gotten his ship into a favorableposition, and for an hour and a half hemanoeuvred in silence, under a heavy firefrom the British frigate. At length, having g
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... he fell in withthe British frigate Guerriere,Captain Dacres, one of the ves-sels that had chased her duringthe previous month. TheGuerriere immediately stood towards her,and both vessels prepared for action. TheEnglish commander opened his fire at longrange^ but Captain Hull refused to replyuntil he had gotten his ship into a favorableposition, and for an hour and a half hemanoeuvred in silence, under a heavy firefrom the British frigate. At length, having got within pistol shot ofher adversary, the Constitution opened aterrible fire upon her, and poured in her broadsides with such effect that the Guer-riere struck her colors in thirty Guerriere lost seventy-nine menkilled and wounded, while the loss of the Constitution was but seven men. The Guerriere was so much injured in the fightthat she could not be carried into port, an.;Hull had her burned. The Constitution then returned to Bos-ton with her prisoners, and was received withan ovation. It was the first time in half a. COMMODORE HULL. century that a British frigate had struck herflag in a fair fight, and the victory was hailedwith delight in all parts of the country. On the eighteenth of October the Ameri-can sloop-of-war Wasp, eighteen. CaptainJones, met the British brig Frolic, twenty-two, convoying six merchantmen. In orderto give her convoy a chance to escape, theFrolic shortened sail and awaited theapproach of the Wasp. The Wasp poured a raking fire into her antagonist and 524 FROM THEREVOLUriUlS! TO THE CIVIL A\^AR. then boarded her. The boarders found thedeck of the Frohc covered with the one man remained unhurt, and hestood gallantly at his post at the the prize could be secured theBritish frigate Poictiers, 74, hove insight and captured both vessels. The Wasp lost eight men in the engagement;,the Frolic eighty. On the twenty-fifth o
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