The American Merchant Marine: Its History and Romance from 1620 to 1902Scribner, 1902 - 444 Seiten |
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... fleet , after a period of neg- lect and decline , has again grown strong and prosperous , while our merchant fleet on the high seas has shrunk to a mere shadow of its ancient greatness . It is in the firm belief that the renaissance of ...
... fleet , after a period of neg- lect and decline , has again grown strong and prosperous , while our merchant fleet on the high seas has shrunk to a mere shadow of its ancient greatness . It is in the firm belief that the renaissance of ...
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... fleet proved a reserve ready and indispensable . Yankee privateers , Yankee packets , Yankee clippers , sail the seas no longer , but their fame endures and their exploits stand unequalled . More of the romance of the ocean than ...
... fleet proved a reserve ready and indispensable . Yankee privateers , Yankee packets , Yankee clippers , sail the seas no longer , but their fame endures and their exploits stand unequalled . More of the romance of the ocean than ...
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... fleet , it is impossible for any American who knows them to speak or write without deep feeling - impossible , certainly , to the first of his race in a long New England line who has not been either shipowner or seaman . WINTHROP ...
... fleet , it is impossible for any American who knows them to speak or write without deep feeling - impossible , certainly , to the first of his race in a long New England line who has not been either shipowner or seaman . WINTHROP ...
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... Fleet The " Leander " and the " Richard " — The " Leopard " and the " Chesapeake❞— Our Retaliation in the Embargo of 1807- More Harmful to us than to our Enemies - Napoleon's Trap sprung on American Vessels — The Day of Retribution ...
... Fleet The " Leander " and the " Richard " — The " Leopard " and the " Chesapeake❞— Our Retaliation in the Embargo of 1807- More Harmful to us than to our Enemies - Napoleon's Trap sprung on American Vessels — The Day of Retribution ...
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... Fleet now but a Memory . - • 173 194 Ј CHAPTER XI THE INCOMING OF STEAM . 1831-45 - - Can American An Era of Maritime Activity all over the World Shipping stand without Protection ? - Splendid Sailing Packets -Yankee Vessels everywhere ...
... Fleet now but a Memory . - • 173 194 Ј CHAPTER XI THE INCOMING OF STEAM . 1831-45 - - Can American An Era of Maritime Activity all over the World Shipping stand without Protection ? - Splendid Sailing Packets -Yankee Vessels everywhere ...
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Seite 135 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 135 - Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 40 - Whereas, it is necessary, for the support of the government, for the discharge of the debt of the United States and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchandise imported, he it enacted,
Seite 120 - France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," it is provided " that in case either Great Britain or France shall, before the third day of March next, so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Seite 135 - Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue the gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Seite 39 - This being the state of things, you may depend upon it the commerce of America will have no relief at present, nor, in my opinion, ever, until the United States shall have generally passed navigation acts. If this measure is not adopted we shall be derided, and the more we suffer, the more will our calamities be laughed at. My most earnest exhortation to the States, then, is, and ought to be, to lose no time in passing such acts.
Seite 347 - No merchandise shall be transported by water under penalty of forfeiture thereof from one port of the United States to another port of the United States...
Seite 135 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 114 - The sum of these mutual enterprises on our national rights is that France and her allies, reserving for future consideration the prohibiting our carrying anything to the British territories, have virtually done it by restraining our bringing a return cargo from them ; and Great Britain, after prohibiting a great proportion of our commerce with France and her allies, is now believed to have prohibited the whole. The whole world is thus laid under interdict by these two nations...
Seite 15 - Ireland, and took or destroyed seventeen or eighteen sail of vessels, they most effectually alarmed England, prevented the great fair at Chester, occasioned insurance to rise, and even deterred the English merchants -from shipping goods in English bottoms at any rate, so that in a few weeks forty sail of French ships were loading in the Thames on freight ; an instance never before known.