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 . thewounded and prisoners on board the Con-stitution. At about two oclock in theafternoon, a sail was discovered off the lar-board beam, standing to the south. TheConstitution was instantly c
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 . thewounded and prisoners on board the Con-stitution. At about two oclock in theafternoon, a sail was discovered off the lar-board beam, standing to the south. TheConstitution was instantly cleared foraction; but at three, the vessel stoodawaj. At daybreak, information wasreceived from the lieutenant on board theprize, that the Guerriere was an unman-ageable wreck, with four feet of water inthe hold, and in a sinking condition. Assoon, therefore, as all the crew wereremoved from on board of her, she wasabandoned, and her shattered hulk set fireto and blown up. During the wholeperiod of combat, the total loss on boardthe Constitution amounted to seven killedand seven wounded, and, as soon as shehad rove new rigging, applied the neces-sary stoppers, and bent a few sails, shewas readj, as has been seen, to engageanother frigate. Captain Hull, in histribute to his crew, says: They allfought with great bravery; from thesmallest boy in the ship to the oldest 230 OUR FIKST ACTION nETWEEN THE FRIGATES C0K8TITUTI0N ASD OUEOBIERE. spanian, not a look of fear was seen. Theyall went into aition giving three cheers,and requesting to be laid close alongsidethe enemy. In the very heat of theengagement, one of the crew of the Con-stitution, perceiving that the flag at theforetop-mast head had been shot away,wont up with it, and lashed it so securely as to render its removal impossible, unlessthe mast went with it. The total casualties, from first to last,on board the Gnerriere, in killed andwounded, numbered nearly eighty, com-prising about one-third of her en
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