Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ined the beach from morning untilnight, and every moment importuned meto take the taboos off the men, and laugh-ingly expressed their grief by dippingtheir fingers into the sea and touchingtheir eyes, so as to let the salt-watertrickle down their cheeks. When the Essex was thoroughly fittedfor her long voyage and for encounteringenemies, she sailed (Dec. 12) with herprizes from Nooaheevah Island (which hehad named Madison), and on Feb. 3, 1814,entered the harbor of Valparaiso. On
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ined the beach from morning untilnight, and every moment importuned meto take the taboos off the men, and laugh-ingly expressed their grief by dippingtheir fingers into the sea and touchingtheir eyes, so as to let the salt-watertrickle down their cheeks. When the Essex was thoroughly fittedfor her long voyage and for encounteringenemies, she sailed (Dec. 12) with herprizes from Nooaheevah Island (which hehad named Madison), and on Feb. 3, 1814,entered the harbor of Valparaiso. One ofthe captured vessels, which he had armedand named Essex Junior, cruised off theharbor as a scout, to give warning of theapproach of any man-of-war. Very soontwo English men-of-war were reported inthe offing. They sailed into the harbor,and proved to be the Phcebe, thirty-sixguns, Captain Hillyar, and her consort,the Cherub, twenty-two guns. CaptainTucker. The former mounted thirty long 18-pounders, sixteen 32-pounder carronades,and one howitzer; also six 3-pounders inher tops. Her crew consisted of 320 men. ESSEX FIGHTING PHOJBE AND CHEKUB. 263 ESSEX JUSTTA and boys. The Cherub mounted eighteen32-pounder carronades below, with eight24-pounder carronades and two long ninesabove, making a total of twenty - eightguns. Her crew numbered 180. The Es-sex at that time could muster only 225,and the Essex Junior only sixty. The had forty 32-pounder carronades and were lavished upon him, and several oi,ai,ulegislatures and the national Congressgave him thanks. Essex Junta, The. The course of Pres-ident John Adams, who was anxious fora renomination and election, caused afatal schism in the Federal party. Helooked to the Southern States as his chief
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