 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1852 - 430 Seiten
...an excessive premium ; and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed unheeded, unresisted, unmolested, to take, burn, or sink our own vessels,...own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbors. " That the ports of the Clyde have snstained severe loss from the depredations already committed, and... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1852 - 436 Seiten
...an excessive premium ; and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed unheeded, unresisted, unmolested, to take, burn, or sink our own vessels,...own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbors. " That the ports of the Clyde have sustained severe loss from the depredations already committed, and... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1852 - 432 Seiten
...and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed unheeded, unresisted, unmolested, to lake, burn, or sink our own vessels, in our own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbors. " That the ports of the Clyde have sustained severe loss from the depredations already committed, and... | |
 | George Coggeshall - 1856 - 522 Seiten
...effected but at an excessive premium ; and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed, unheeded, unresisted and unmolested, to take, burn or sink,...own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbors. " That the ports of the Clyde have sustained severe loss from the depredations already committed, and... | |
 | Winthrop Lippit Marvin - 1902 - 490 Seiten
...safety traverse our own channels, that insurance cannot be effected but at an excessive premium, and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed,...own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbors." What manner of men and of ships these were, that did this bold and telling work, can be gathered from... | |
 | Winthrop Lippitt Marvin - 1902 - 492 Seiten
...that insurance cannot be effected but at an excessive premium, and that a horde of American cruisers 9 should be allowed, unresisted and unmolested, to take,...own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbors." What manner of men and of ships these were, that did this bold and telling work, can be gathered from... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1905 - 632 Seiten
...preminm, and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed, unheeded, unmolested, unresisted, to take, burn, or sink our own vessels in our own inlets, and almost in sight of our own harbours."2 In the same month the merchants of Bristol, the position of which was comparatively favorable... | |
 | Frederic Stanhope Hill - 1908 - 526 Seiten
...effected but at an excessive premium, and that a horde of American cruisers should be allowed, unheeded, unresisted, and unmolested to take, burn, or sink...vessels in our own inlets, and almost in sight of our harbors. In view, therefore, of the undoubted fact that our saucy American privateers were such an... | |
 | Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1919 - 234 Seiten
...loss of hands who could be replaced. Attacking the family in the person of its natural 1 The Press Gang Afloat and Ashore, by JR Hutchinson. supporter...a blockade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which he requested should be posted in Lloyd's Coffee House. A wonderfully fine figure... | |
 | Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1919 - 236 Seiten
...acknowledged their ability. The year of 1812 was indeed but a little distance from the resplendent modern 117 era of the Atlantic packet and the Cape Horn clipper....a blockade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which he requested should be posted in Lloyd's Coffee House. A wonderfully fine figure... | |
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The year of 1812 was indeed but a little distance from the resplendent modern era of the Atlantic packet and the Cape Horn clipper. Already these Yankee deep-water ships could be recognized afar by their lofty spars and snowy clouds of cotton duck beneath... 
