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... gun boats , came up with , and attacked the Ameri- can gallies , near Skeenesborough Falls . In the meantime , three regiments which had been landed at South Bay , ascended and passed a mountain with great expedition , in order to turn ...
... gun boats , came up with , and attacked the Ameri- can gallies , near Skeenesborough Falls . In the meantime , three regiments which had been landed at South Bay , ascended and passed a mountain with great expedition , in order to turn ...
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... gun boats , were completely overpowered . Two of them surrendered ; three were blown up . The Americans now despaired ; having set fire to their works , mills , and batteaux , and otherwise destroyed what they were unable to burn , they ...
... gun boats , were completely overpowered . Two of them surrendered ; three were blown up . The Americans now despaired ; having set fire to their works , mills , and batteaux , and otherwise destroyed what they were unable to burn , they ...
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... gun boats ; he also made a very considerable number of prisoners . Colonel John- ston arrived at the same time under the walls of Fort Independence . The two fortresses were summoned to capitulate . But brigadier Powell , who held the ...
... gun boats ; he also made a very considerable number of prisoners . Colonel John- ston arrived at the same time under the walls of Fort Independence . The two fortresses were summoned to capitulate . But brigadier Powell , who held the ...
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... guns . The Arethusa being the better sailer , arrived about six in the evening within musket shot of the Belle Poule . Marshall informed the French captain , M. de la Clocheterie , of his orders to bring him under the stern of the ...
... guns . The Arethusa being the better sailer , arrived about six in the evening within musket shot of the Belle Poule . Marshall informed the French captain , M. de la Clocheterie , of his orders to bring him under the stern of the ...
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... guns , commanded by lord Longford , which lay the nearest to her . This done , she struck her colors , as if , tired of this middle state between peace and war in which she was kept , she had preferred , though a prisoner , to consti ...
... guns , commanded by lord Longford , which lay the nearest to her . This done , she struck her colors , as if , tired of this middle state between peace and war in which she was kept , she had preferred , though a prisoner , to consti ...
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