id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 22305 Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John) The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 .txt text/plain 170173 8995 76 battle lanterns on the gun-decks made the open ports of the war-ships harbor, the Americans found nine British vessels lying at anchor. when near the American coast, she fell in with a British vessel to Another time, during the same year, Tucker took two British ships near When morning broke, the Americans saw a large sixteen-gun ship lying several United States men-of-war and armed vessels, among them the United States ships being manned largely by British prisoners. United States a good man-of-war, and forced a ship's crew of Yankee British ship-of-war had halted them in mid-ocean, and seized American every British man-of-war to stop an American vessel on the high seas, Porter replied that his was an American ship, and the British orders to captains of American war-vessels, directing them to capture American ships by British privateers. British man-of-war, boasted of his ship's exploits among the American ./cache/22305.txt ./txt/22305.txt