A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America: With an Appendix, and Plates, Volume 1author, 1818 - Ontario |
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Page xiv
... officers and American naval histories tell.§ 6 The author , although he is no naval officer , ' would be ashamed to be convicted of having stated , that the loss of a ship's ' jib - boom ' is equal , in point of importance , to the loss ...
... officers and American naval histories tell.§ 6 The author , although he is no naval officer , ' would be ashamed to be convicted of having stated , that the loss of a ship's ' jib - boom ' is equal , in point of importance , to the loss ...
Page xv
... officers ) testified , on oath , that the whole number of persons on board the Wasp , previous to the action , was 137 ; ' § - actually within one of the author's statement.¶ C In the very teeth of American official papers , does this ...
... officers ) testified , on oath , that the whole number of persons on board the Wasp , previous to the action , was 137 ; ' § - actually within one of the author's statement.¶ C In the very teeth of American official papers , does this ...
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... officers ' ought to ' feel mortified at , ' why is the American reviewer , in his candid ' examination of it , so extremely irritable ? Even his own country- men , the gentle ' readers for whose entertain- ment he has labored and ...
... officers ' ought to ' feel mortified at , ' why is the American reviewer , in his candid ' examination of it , so extremely irritable ? Even his own country- men , the gentle ' readers for whose entertain- ment he has labored and ...
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... officers of rank and respectability ; but whose names ( as must be obvious ) he is not , in all cases , at liberty to disclose . Should , however , any mistatement have incautiously crept into his narrative , military or naval , the ...
... officers of rank and respectability ; but whose names ( as must be obvious ) he is not , in all cases , at liberty to disclose . Should , however , any mistatement have incautiously crept into his narrative , military or naval , the ...
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... officers and agents of that government . " Such is the spectacle of injuries and indig- nities which have been heaped on our country ; and such the crisis which its unexampled for- bearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to ...
... officers and agents of that government . " Such is the spectacle of injuries and indig- nities which have been heaped on our country ; and such the crisis which its unexampled for- bearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to ...
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