 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 358 Seiten
...main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her...quarters, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under-officers induced them to call to the enemy. The English Commodore asked me if I demanded quarters,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1830 - 564 Seiten
...main-mast, with doubleheaded shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her...have since understood, on the instant of calling for quarter, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my underofHcers induced them to call to the enemy.... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1845 - 416 Seiten
...main-mast, with doubleheaded shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her...quarters, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under-officers induced them to call to the enemy. The English commodore asked me if I demanded quarters,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 Seiten
...double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister-shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her decks,...have since understood, on the instant of calling for quarter, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under-officers induced them to call to the... | |
 | John Frost - 1850 - 462 Seiten
...main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her...quarters, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under-officers induced them to call to the enemy. The English Commodore asked me if I demanded quarters,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1850 - 448 Seiten
...double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served witli grape and canister-shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her decks,...have since understood, on the instant of calling for quarter, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under-officers induced them to call to the... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 822 Seiten
...main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her...quarters, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under-officers induced them to call to the enemy. The English commodore asked me if I demanded quarters,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1855 - 560 Seiten
...main-mast, with doubleheaded shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her...have since understood, on the instant of calling for quarter, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my underofficers induced them to call to the enemy.... | |
 | 1855 - 624 Seiten
...doubleheaded shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and cannister-shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her decks,...have since understood, on the instant of calling for quarter, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under officers induced them to call to the... | |
 | John Frost - 1857 - 853 Seiten
...main-mast, with double-headed shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her...quarters, when the cowardice or treachery of three of my under-officers induced them to call to the enemy. The English commodore asked me if I demanded quarters,... | |
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I directed the fire of one of the three cannon against the main-mast, with doubleheaded shot, while the other two were exceedingly well served with grape and canister shot, to silence the enemy's musketry and clear her decks, which was at last effected. 
